Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty.

The water doesn't know how old you are.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

A Christian life based on feeling is headed for a gigantic collapse.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition.

I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.

I'm done with my job. It was my job to be the advocate and spokesman for the President of the United States.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.