The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.

Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.

The living need charity more than the dead.

But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!

Life for the living, and rest for the dead!

I love this simple maiden, She grows upon me more and more, And--ask the moon who 't was that kissed, Last night upon the shore!

I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.

What rare days were those, When my chief duty was to write a song.

I let my summer days pass idly on.

Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!

There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

Take time to breathe in the aroma of Life.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Certain of misfire, my heart threatens to stop.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

I can't tell you his age, but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.

New York is like America with the volume turned up to 10.

I looked down again at the sign in my hand - ENJOY THE RIDE! - and it seemed, suddenly, to be just that. A sign.

This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.