Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

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.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

They loved the sound of their own voices. No decision would be reached anytime soon.

When you're acting, you're a person. When you're modeling, you're a hanger.

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

I love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it.

That's what dating is for, after all - to learn if you're compatible with someone.

A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart.

I personally will be overjoyed when the Canadian courts rule to return John Graham back to the US to answer for this brutal murder.

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.