All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.

The last hour from midnight had lost half its quarters, and the stars went lifting up the great minutes.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

Laws change more slowly than custom, and though dangerous when they fall behind the times are more dangerous still when the presume to anticipate custom.

Laughing is also good for your respiratory system.

You know, I said in the U.N., I said to President Abbas, "Look, we're in the same city, we're in the same building, for God's sake, the U.N. Let 's just sit down and begin to talk peace."

In the final analysis it doesn't really matter what the political system is...We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.

Is the square root of hate the same thing as love times love?

Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.

My Book and Heart Shall never part.

Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive

I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.

I find impressionists slightly annoying, really.