The starry cope Of heaven.

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.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

everyone has their folding-point, Miles. Their mortal vulnerability. Some just keep it in a nonstandard location.

even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.

. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

Players with high character get better. Players with a serious approach get better. The fools never get better

The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy award voter with a tampon in her purse.

Listening is not the same as hearing and hearing is not the same as listening

It's hard to fathom the psychology of the economics of art. I don't quite understand it, and I don't necessarily want to understand it.

The error of our eye directs our mind. What error leads must err.

One of our predecessors said, "Throwing away the inexhaustible treasury of your own home, you go with your bowl from door to door, acting like a beggar"