Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.

...we can never attain a maximum love of God with only a minimum knowledge of God

Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.

We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing of the human soul.

Walsall have given City more than one anxious moment amongst many anxious moments

I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.

Had my first son this morning... well, actually, my wife had him. I just caught him. Wo. Heart expanding way faster than my brain...

I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.

I don't even know Amanda Seyfried or whatever - they're all the same!

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.