What name to call thee by, O virgin fair, I know not, for thy looks are not of earth And more than mortal seems thy countenances

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

A charm invests a faceImperfectly beheld, —The lady dare not lift her veilFor fear it be dispelled.But peers beyond her mesh, And wishes, and denies, —Lest interview annul a wantThat image satisfies.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.

I always wanted to be one of those people who were good at many, many things, but from a very early age, I fell in love with acting.

In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid.

We need young people to be involved, and we have to expect that young people are going to be impatient, they don't want to wait, and they've got new ideas and new ways of looking at problems.

If I have an idea in my head, within no time it's into the computer, it may take more time to make it sound right, but that's the only issue.

Remain alert about your blindness, about your fear, about your ignorance, and just your alertness will dispel the whole darkness of blindness, of fear, of ignorance.

The very difference of character in marriage produces a harmonious combination.

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.