Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.

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.

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

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.

It's possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past.

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

You can't really study people; you can only get to know them.

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

Many a standing ovation has been caused by someone jumping to his feet in an effort to beat the rest of the audience to the parking lot.

It's too early for a Polish pope.

I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

The Federal Reserve... is in the position of the chaperone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up.