It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions.

Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief!

The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

The question is never 'who am I?' It's 'who do I want to be?

Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

...it isn’t things and proximity, or even blood that holds us all together. What makes a family is love and loyalty.

Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding. Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.

The Obama administration has attempted to prosecute more journalists and journalistic sources under the same Espionage Act she was being investigated under in all previous presidencies combined.

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another.

Speak but little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.

Figuring out what to wear is much easier if you first think about what effect you want to create.