As the longfingered sun reaches out to touch a cloistered trillium or a lake trembles in the light of moon and stars so can a poet's long rainbow of words play our heartstrings from afar.

When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough: I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

A penny saved is a penny earned, and a penny spent, is a penny enjoyed.

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse, Without all hope of day.

Nothing endures but change.

A blind person, in reality, is the only person who can truly see. They know first hand what true love is, without the use of eyes, but with the heart. And that is the truest form of love, and they harness it.

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.

I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvelous. It must be very inexpensive.

Government is a kind of legalized pillage.

What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more!

As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

Without risk there is no opportunity for gain.

It is not 'seeing' the light that impacts one's life; it is never 'ceasing' to see the light that impresses one's life, spirit, heart and soul.