The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

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.

God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.

What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.

The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.

You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.

Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.

I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.

All of West Ham's away victories have come on opponents' territory this season

I do like certain kinds of frames for work. That's important.

That wasn't love; that was stupidity.

To win power anywhere you have to convince people that you can do something for them.