While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.

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.

Tell them there are no holes for your fingers in the masks ofmen. Tell them how could you ever even hope to love what you can'tgrab onto.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

The essence of life isn't just to survive, but to also introduce your life to a very meaningful positive purpose.

And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while

At its heart, legalism is a desire to appear holy. It is trying to be justified before men and not God.

Most people believe that aging is universal but there are biological organisms that never age.

Don't order one for the road, because the road is already laid out.

To be born in Kentucky is a heritage; to brag about it is a habit; to appreciate it is a virtue.

The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries.

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be.