Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.

Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.

Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.

As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air

I see the right, and I approve it too,Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.

Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death.

Where billows never break, nor tempests roar.

1. Reading becomes knowledge.2. Applying knowledge becomes experience.Most people have done 1 but they forget 2. These people blow too much without effective result.

Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.

A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.

Hair is what connects women in Dakar and Detroit, Oprah [Winfrey] and Opal [Tometi] the Black Lives Matter activist. There's a story in every kink, curl, and coil.

Man keeps inventing things all the time.

Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.

Passion isn't always available. The committed get things done even without it.

Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.

What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!