Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.

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!

Why did this disease choose me? I cannot carry it, if its just for the word: Fate.

You're never too old to take baby steps

You have to believe the magic to see it.

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards.

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

Canadians are so easily wounded.

When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.