However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos.

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!

Gender is like a Rubik’s Cube with one hundred squares per side, and every time you twist it to take a look at another angle, you make it that much harder a puzzle to solve.

If a tree is bent, every goat will jump on it.

I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

The minute you know you're on safe ground, you're dead.

I've created a chaotic life, and then I get on edge because of it.

An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

Chinchilla is said to be more chic than mink, though personally it reminds me of unborn burlap.

Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.

I love you. Still not the right word, but i know you want to hear it.

I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home.