Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our plot twists.

This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.

Time is conscience of the universe.

We have eyes and we have nervesesWe have tails we have teethYou'll all get what you deservesesWhen we rise from underneath.

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

As far as I'm concerned, there is only one absolute: God is love.

The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.