Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

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!

Some things don’t just happen, they happen because somebody decided to make them happen.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

Spooky things, people, places, scents and sounds together or alone can create a powerful adrenalin rush and it floods the senses.

‎"If you want that kind of thing, call Nick. His advice is shit, but he really likes to give it.

Every organism requires an environment of friends partly to shield it from violent changes and partly to supply it with its wants.

It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it.

And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said "I think I need a hair.