Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

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.

Measure your life not by its duration but by its contribution.

Writers are creatures of habit, as are humans, but writers aren’t necessarily human, are they?

When I think of the word "organic, " I think of natural, wholesome, and fundamental.That's exactly what I want my children's education to be like.

If there is anything in life to worry about at all, it’s your wasted yesterday. Unfortunately, before you worry about it, you have to waste today doing so. Never worry!

Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

How can you look at the Texas legislature and still believe in intelligent design?

The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

I'm superstitious a little bit.

All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.

Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.