When Eve upon the first of MenThe apple press’d with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities thenThat Adam was not adamant!

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November!

Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells When on the undulating air they swim!

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.

Coquetry is the champagne of love.

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

Nietzsche lampooned the romantics of his day (a half century later), noting that "they muddy the waters to make them look deep.

When I am myself, I am happy and have a good result.

Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

Hee will spend a whole yeares rent at one meales meate.

Love is an energy. You can feed it to people, and they in turn feed it to others, and eventually it comes back.

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral.

To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.

You haven't hurt people—you've given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.