Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

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.

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind

Be firm.

Living in the past is a place that has no future.

I've found that people who design computers don't know a lot about displays.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.

There are no more slow weeks. I realized this about 3 years ago. Downtime in politics isn't a thing.

Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Alex Riley does a lot of things for me. I teach him so many things.