Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

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.

Ignorance is a crime against ones self

There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.

He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.

The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.

The Zen master can see precisely what it will take to cause your awareness to become free. But the Zen master can't do it for you.

[T]he only way to shrink the trade deficit is for the government to prohibit us from buying whatever we want.

If you do what is easy, your life will be hard

From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.

As Christians, we have an obligation and responsibility to abide by the principles of the Bible.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.