The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

God is the Lord of lords.

Daily dance is my delight.

Life is death. Death is Life. teach the deserving. Teach with Passion. Learn always. Assume Nothing.

The most diplomatic statement you can use for the person you hate:"If I would have water, and you would be on fire, ...I would drink IT.

Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion.

Change is always a little bit strange.

Laws are important precisely because in a democracy they reflect the attitudes and aspirations of those they govern.

Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.

Where there is movement, there is reach. Reach engenders communion.

Tears could not be equal, if I wept diamonds from the skies. Jenks (Black Magic Sanction)