When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.

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.

Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

It was my turn to be silent while a small family of moments crossed my path, single file, from the left, sticking their tongues out at me.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.

My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

Hillary Clinton doesn't know anything about my policy. I mean, she wouldn't know anything about it.

To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.

I don't worry about what my opponent is doing.

Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.