He gives us the very quintessence of perception,

Sweet and glorious it is to die for our country.

Horace

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Washington Irving

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Edmund Burke

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

Lane Kirkland

There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.

Simone Weil

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

Neil Gaiman

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

George Eliot

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

Mark Twain

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

Joseph Ratzinger

First he wrought, and afterward he taught.

Chaucer

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

Pete Townshend