Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

I am not a conqueror. I am nothing like you.

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

....there is a difference between hearing and listening. You can't always help what you hear. But you can control what holds your interest, what you choose to dwell on.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

Passion gives you an advantage over others, because one person with passion is greater than ninety-nine who have only an interest!

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption.

Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut.

Making fun of guys to get them to perform and prove themselves, that's always going to exist. But we have to equally celebrate them and empower them.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

A lollipop is a cross between hard candy and garbage.