I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

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.

There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction.

What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving.

I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis.

I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.

Most of us think of government as them. Yet government isn't Them: It's us.

I don't like when people try to put a spin and have a second agenda to make a person look bad.

Our story is a 'once upon a time', but it's not a 'happy ever after'.