These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

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.

Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you.

Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations.

The oldest [John Kenneth] Galbraith rule is that when you hear that a new era has dawned, you should take cover.

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?

Science is in low regard.

I feel my immortality over sweep all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, - and peal, like the eternal thunders of the deep, into my ears, this truth, - thou livest forever!

Let us march immediately, and never lay down our arms until we obtain our independence.

You're still the one I run to, the one that I belong to, you're still the one I want for life.

I can assure you that those who have already passed have not only made it to the Other Side, but are in a state of bliss.

There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors.