My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Ambiguity begets participation.

PoetTo mask the fiery thought, in simple words succeeds.For still the craft of genius is, To mask a king in weeds

I am near fourteen and have never yet seen a hanging. My life is barren.

In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.

I miss him already. He was a unique person and a dear friend. If a record came on the radio, you'd know it was Waylon Jennings.

I've always thought cruelty is a failure of imagination.

Of all the great heavyweights of modern times, Joe Frazier was the unluckiest. He had to share an era with both Ali and Foreman.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

You can, of course, be a sexy, strong female and be a good role model.

Be still my tongue, for i know not what to say; My life is lived in darkness and here i will remain.