Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

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.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

All foreign companies registered in China are Chinese enterprises. Their innovation, production and business operations in China enjoy the same treatment as Chinese enterprises.

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

Writing is a spiritual path. It helps you listen to your heart, trust your inner guidance, and live your life full-out.

I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.