The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

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.

lessons of medicrity, to a great extent, produce students of mediocrity

You can get your time and your life under control only to the degree to which you discontinue lower-value activities.

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

If something is said about the Raiders, I'm ready to go to war.

The simplest answer is to act.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

Yup, the toilet is my best friend before a show.

...guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

All my knowledge comes from research.