Yet will that beauteous image make The dreary sea less drear And thy remembered smile will wake The hope that tramples fear

The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!

These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.

The groves were God's first temples.

I'm proud to have been the son of so great a woman.

The walls that a hateful mind builds around it, make it impossible for happiness to find its way in.

I don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.

To be great, art has to point somewhere.

I struggled academically throughout elementary school

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

Adversity will surface in every life. How we meet it makes the difference.

I must love big novels, because that's what I've written. It takes a while before you begin to breathe the air the characters breathe.