Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

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.

Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?

Love is like a climbing rope. There are little knots along the way, but if you learn off of them, you can get higher than you ever expected.

If you're not in the game, you can't hit a home run.

If you're going to win the Premier League, you're going to have to finish ahead of Chelsea and Manchester City.

If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified.

If drink sales are falling off, we get the pilots to engineer a bit of turbulence. That usually spikes sales.

You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.

But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.

The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.