And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

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.

We grow from our dreams.

I did not take off our clothes, and did not enter you, and did not touch you. However, we practice love.

Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.

God save me from myself.

I prayed only for a small piece of land, a garden, an ever-flowing spring, and bit of woods.

Don’t worry," I said. "These men are good. They’re going to heal the world.

If I shoot at the sun, I may hit a star.

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.