In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom... And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

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!

God wants to create something new on this earth

One difficulty that someone who has been in military/government service during war has, is reconciling his/her pride with their horror.

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

I like the fact that people are surprised by my age. I like the fact that I get carded.

There's a lot of hate in the world.

It seemed impossible that there could be people in the world who still desired food, who laughed, who neither knew nor cared that Sirius Black was gone forever.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.

Time does not pass, it merely changes.

To be somebody, you must last.