Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this Than any other thing!

Autumn's the mellow time.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.

Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.

She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

Round the world and home again, that's the sailor's way!

No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may haveThat is part of one's self

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you and anything that is ever going to happen to you is just a thought.

I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.

The President's speech suggested to me that were we to follow his leadership, we will be in Iraq not for months, but for years. I also hope I am wrong on this.

An artist is an explorer.

My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

Beauty and elegance are a right, not a surplus... . We must demand, at least, intention.

Colleges need learning, faith, and freedom. Each reinforces the others, each makes the others possible. For what are they without each other?

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.