There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

... there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.

Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!

For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed.

There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.

I don't want to pick a team. I want to make people laugh and hopefully bring some - be humorous about the human experience, you know, whether they're people of any stripes of life.

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

That's why I'm such a big sports fan, with sports you can never guess what's gonna happen. Most movies you get halfway through and you can kind of guess the ending.

Sovereignty no longer resides in the territory itself, but in the control of the territory. And localisation is an inherent part of that territorial control.

Worship is at the center of everything that the church believes, practices, and seeks to accomplish

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?