Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

To give yourself away keep yourself still, And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill.

Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go, Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake, And die as fast as they see others grow.

Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive.

Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fairTo be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.

His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.

O! how shall summer's honey breath hold out, / Against the wrackful siege of battering days?

Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.

Flaxfield died on a Friday which was a shame, because he always ate a trout for dinner on Friday, and it was his favourite.

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.

Over ten thousand people have signed a petition to recall Governor Schwarzenegger. I'm sorry, that is next year's joke.

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

I am saying that the economic approach provides a valuable unified framework for understanding all human behaviour

Our character is determined by what we do if every restraint were removed.

It is possible for even the smallest of accolades of achievement to be truly worthwhile without tears and toil?

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.