Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill

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.

Happiness is a beautiful feeling. It is a beautiful mind, and a peaceful mind

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

It is very hard, that necessity of listening to a man who says nothing

Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.

A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.

He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality.

The absence of war is not peace.

This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare.

Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.