A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

The old order changeth, yielding place to new, and god fulfills himself in many ways, lest one good custom should corrupt the world.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

The golden guess is morning-star to the full round of truth.

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

Shall the hag Evil die with the child of Good, Or propagate again her loathèd kind, Thronging the cells of the diseased mind, Hateful with hanging cheeks, a withered brood, Though hourly pastured on the salient blood?

Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire.