Poetry is the eloquence of verse.

The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows.

Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings.

The moon is at her full, and riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night.

It is said to be the manner of hypochondriacs to change often their physician.

Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!

These struggling tides of life that seem In wayward, aimless course to tend, Are eddies of the mighty stream That rolls to its appointed end.

But 'neath yon crimson tree Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame.

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile.

There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light.

The groves were God's first temples.

When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!

You never know how long you have-there might not BE a later-so don't let things go unsaid or unforgiven.

I'm watching you, big boy, my eyes say, but his are closed so it's an optical monologue.

I am at war with the living, I have come to terms with the dead.

There are real radical Muslim groups out there that really are pretty villainous. You don't have to make them up.

In order to have the best intelligence in the world to know who the terrorists are and where they are and what they're plotting, you've got to have the best cooperation you've ever had in the world.

Beauty is . . . a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

I want to retire very early, by the time I am 40, and go to live in Italy.

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.

Opposing the free flow of goods or people is a bad idea.