He who is not grateful for the good things he has would not be happy with what he wishes he had.

But noble souls, through dust and heat, Rise from disaster and defeat The stronger.

The prayer of Ajax was for light; Through all that dark and desperate fight, The blackness of that noonday night.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; What's genuine, shall posterity inherit.

For there is no day however beautiful that is not followed by night.

With the smile that was childlike and bland.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair; The ornament of beauty is suspect, A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. So thou be good, slander doth but approve Thy worth the greater, being wooed of time; For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love, And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult, our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

yada, yada, yada.

At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

Praise me not too much, Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks Who know me.

Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose, but you're gonna win if you just hang in.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.

Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green; The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar Twined amorous round the raptures scene.