. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

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.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.

They're still a subject beholden to special interests, but at least they have a national constituency. At least they have to think about national majorities.

Young people don't want to sit at home and watch television; they'd sooner be out doing their own thing.

You'll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.

I enjoy listening to the albums of my youth as much as ever.

Let today's strong performance be your starting point for tomorrow.

If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.

Everyone has a completely different style of riding and a different style of judging.