Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

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

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

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.

Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.

It turns out dentists don't like it very much when you show up for a cleaning in full vampire gear.

I feel like you only need one moment of inspiration to turn your life around.

In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction...

All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.

It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling.

When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?