What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

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.

A writer who has perfect writing skills and zero honesty is not an author but a sales person.

Becoming a writer is a polite way of saying you've chosen alcoholism as a career.

I hope we'll be friends." His grin was pure sin.... She stuck with the truth. "I hope we won't be enemies.

When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other countries play football. He corrected me on my geography and agreed to sit down with me anyway.

I have always thought, "If the city cannot come to the country, then the country must come to the city."

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.

Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.

My one remaining professional ambition is to read the shipping forecast. I live in hope.

We kept on racing, doing something that Luis [Salom] loved. Fortunately or unfortunately, life goes on.