The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!

A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!

The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage.

There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.

What common people call beauty is essentially nature. The moment nature abandons you, your beauty is lost forever.

Ethics change with technology.

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

Seek virtue and of that posest, to Providence resign the rest.

And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.

When I write songs, I try to remove myself a little bit. Obviously they're very personal to me, but it feels easier if I feel like I'm writing characters.

But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?

The reference to John Podesta is general. It is not specific. And, by the way, he does have his time in the barrel shortly thereafter.

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.