A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

Youth is after all just a moment but it is the moment the spark that you always carry in your heart.

The only morality in a cruel world is chance.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

It's essentially encouraging parents, teachers, and caretakers to remind children how special they are on a regular basis.

As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret.

The only prudence in life is concentration.

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.

The learning of the Christian man ought to begin with the fear of God.

People who are very beautiful make their own laws.

I didn't want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn't like it. I always wanted to do other things.