The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.

Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder.

Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.

Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee?

With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression.

If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing Should certain persons die before they sing.

Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.

Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

Man is more than half of nature's treasure.

The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed center.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

Sure, our legal system has its flaws, but it is the best legal system in the world.

Mysticism occurs whenever a human being sees the separation between the natural and the supernatural, between the temporal and the eternal, as overcome.

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you'll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.

A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

Hearing is a form of touch. I could hear less through the ears but more through the body.

Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

You could use artificial intelligence to build a system around postcodes and income, which could lead to racial profiling.

Art is what is irresistible.