This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

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.

Treat yourself as if you were someone inexpressibly dear to you.

If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

My work is my play. I found a way to make my passion to be the same as how I make a living.

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.

If you want to understand love, first learn about freedom.

I'm not going to waste a second feeling sorry for myself because I'm not a bigger star than I am. I can walk down the street in most places in the world and I still drive really nice cars.