Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

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!

They may not know each other to say it, but it was never hidden. How much ever they hated each other, fate ties them together.

You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another.

Depriving our communities of libraries will deprive our society of its ability to survive. - Neil Gaiman

Paranoids are the only ones who notice things anymore.

How do you begin? The answer is simple: you decide to.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous.

The egotism of people who are eminent without being in the least distinguished and somehow feeling that's their due - that seems to me to be a peculiarly English phenomenon.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

Fame is a heavy burden.