To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.

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.

It is human, to want to feel connected with others, to strive for a sense of belonging.Yet the ultimate hack is to belong with yourself.Once you belong within, You belong with all.

I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.

Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.

We had a shared experience. That makes a good marriage better. In many ways our marriage is great because she has made it great.

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp.

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

Beware of being the roller / When there's nothing left to roll