Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

Everybody will get their wants, when they heartily want.

I have only been a ‘Poor Me’ once or twice in my life…. And that was my own fault.

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it.

Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.

All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia