See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

From dawn to dusk I spent my time in the real world. Only in my dreams at night could I indulge my fantasies.

You have to change your thinking if you desire to have a future different from your present.

It was a single line amid a wall of hate. It barely made a difference.But it was a start—and that was all that mattered.

God never put anyone in a place too small to grow in.

I love playing strong women, even if theyre nuts.

If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.

The nature of our mind may be displayed in many ways, but Ashe is the fundamental basis.

Two buckets were easier carried than one. / I grew up in between.