Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

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 love I see in this world is hate and prejudices.

Tolerance means to have the heart open to all differences

At great expense, we have built a vast system of inter-connecting stupidities.

Hillary Clinton has taught us really how vulnerable we are in cyber hacking.

My body is but the lees of my better being.

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

There is a cleavage and a divide in America like I have never seen before.

It's just something internal that says, 'I've got to do this now. This is what I'm doing now.'

I like people who can and like to make fun of themselves!