O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

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.

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

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.

The Bible is the greatest book ever written.

When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.

Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer a writer.

I don't buy a lot when I travel, but when I do, I like to send gifts from wherever I am. It's fun to find the local post office.

What the human eye observes casually and incuriously, the eye of the camera (the lens) notes with relentless fidelity.

I think it's one of the most important battles for consumers to fight: the right to know what's in their food, and how it was grown.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Ultimately what I'll do next is up in the air for me.

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.