Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.

The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.

It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

For always roaming with a hungry heart.

I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

There is no better way to die, than to die in the midst of a battle, fighting to the very end......like a man.

I'm a creature of routine, and I hate feeling incompetent, so I avoided novelty and challenge. Making an effort to push myself in that way has brought me surprising boost.

Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.