All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

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.

Don’t be too scared to calculate risks

The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

All presidents rail against the press. It goes with the turf.

Sir if I was your daughter I would wait until this train started again and throw myself in front of it!

Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can. -Isabel Culpeper

Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee