Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

Love can never be required or forced

Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]It's meAnd who is the poet writing this poem?That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

Your only shame is to have shame.

Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.

The best accessory for a woman - handsome man!

If we get into the mind-set where the good becomes the enemy of the best, we will get nothing.

One thing is to escape from prison, but what the Texas 7 did that night crossed the line they should have never crossed.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

There is nothing at all wrong with having money unless money has you.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.