I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.

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!

And whenever you look at somebody as an enemy, you never look deep, you never look into the eye, you avoid. Don't be a fighter, be a lover.

There is no excess of goodness. You cannot go too far in the right direction.

Actors and burglars work better at night.

Danger Mouse is now working on a bunch of other records, translating his ideas about remixing into all sorts of other projects.

Do what makes you happy. Keep it simple. Do the research. Work hard. Look ahead.

Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.

The truth of Nature is a part of the truth of God; to him who does not search it out, darkness; to him who does, infinity.

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.

There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.

People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight.