Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.

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!

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind.

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

Love is the most powerful force in the world.

I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!

It’s always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.

Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.

But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

The life of faith is not the perfect life; it is the life which clings on to what God has said he will do.

Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.