When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Self-defense is Nature's eldest law.

…So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky

He with a graceful pride, While his rider every hand survey'd, Sprung loose, and flew into an escapade; Not moving forward, yet with every bound Pressing, and seeming still to quit his ground.

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

Dead men tell no tales.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

Fortune befriends the bold.

It is not enough to be a man... you have to become an idea... a terrible thought... a wraith- indeed- Become one with the darkness.

I find my rest and my rescue in the Lord.

He feels the word close enough to absorb it

It would be a horrible mistake for black people to say, as some have said, "We don't recognize him..." If you refuse to deal with him (Bush), the resources at his disposal will be given to others.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession.

Fair is fair; all love is war.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

What matters is not how well you can avoid trouble, but how you cope with trouble when it comes.

Otherwise I'll fall apart. I'm going to fall apart. I am falling apart.