. . . then black despair The shadow of a starless night, was thrown Over the world in which I moved alone.

You know what rock musicians are? They are hung up, neurotic, over-weight hippies with sex problems.

The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens into that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.

The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.

The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its clouds rise thick about us, forbid the intellect to fasten itself.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Those who are serious in ridiculous matters will be ridiculous in serious matters.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.

Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. Job v.7.

To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work is as impossible as it is to live without being born.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights.

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

The true ship is the ship builder.

Dear authors! suit your topics to your strength, And ponder well your subject, and its length; Nor lift your lad, before you're quite aware What weight your shoulders will, or will not, bear.