Be bold: Venus herself aids the stout-hearted.

I could live in the woods with thee in sight, Where never should human foot intrude: Or with thee find light in the darkest night, And a social crowd in solitude.

What madness is this, inviting sable Death by warfare? It always hovers close and comes unforeseen on silent steps.

How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!

Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.

Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas.

The Love-god inflames more fiercely those he sees are reluctant to surrender.

A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart.

Esteem all things that are good.

How mad it is to summon grim death by means of war!

There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.

One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

Every law of matter or the body supposed to govern man is rendered null and void by the law of Life God.

Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?

I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.

You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it.

No study is possible on the battlefield.

Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.

... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.