If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.

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!

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family

When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.

Consistency and accuracy instills believability

In necessary things unity in doubtful things liberty in all things charity.

All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking makes progress from one place to another; worry remains static.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.