When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

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.

Be Sure To Notice When You're Happy

Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit.

Maybe that's who you are, what you remember.

There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment.

You have to be a lover of books without expecting more of them than they give - a little pleasure, a little insight, a moment of escape, a deepening of your own humanity. Not much else.

Steve Nash is the most unathletic player in the league.

It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term.

I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.

We're getting along so well; I trust you so much for this one second that I'm going to let you yank on me.

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.