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

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.

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.

Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.

You run on the treadmill. But you need to stop watching The Food Network when you're doing it. That is how you torture yourself.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

Luckily, I have some amazing friends.