London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.

I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.

From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

The loving are the daring.

The Father is truly the only Promise Maker who is in earnest a Promise Keeper. A promise from God is a promise kept.

Whether someone does right by you or wrong by you thank them anyway.

I don't care if you're Republican or a Democrat or a Liberal, getting crucified for the way you think or believe, obviously if it's not hurting anyone, it's just Un-American.

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads.

I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.

Without science, there would be no such hope.

You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense.

And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air.

A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.