Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

Really, what is the law when it stands in the way of what the government wants to do?

Passion without knowledge and the desire to learn is foolishness

Any terrorists that have come here and committee acts from 9/11 have come here in some form of a visa.

At a certain point, you must be able to slip loose. At a certain point, you found that you had been set free. You could be anyone, he thought. You could be anyone.

I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'

Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.