Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

As he drove away from his handiwork, knowing he'd left no survivors, the killer looked at the rising smoke and gave himself a pat on the back for another assignment well done...

Nothing happens by mistake the universe has a divine plan...Stay attuned to it.

Photography promises an enhanced mastery of nature, but photography also threatens conflagration and anarchy.

I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.

I'm getting pretty worried. My girlfriend hasn't gotten her period. And she's already 14.

I have never considered myself an economist.

I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace.

I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.

In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.

Writing poetry is the only form of literary labour which gives me entire satisfaction.