Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.

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!

For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.

Delayed gratification is what makes a man.

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences.

Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon.

Im a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I dont like passive good guys.

Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.

I've never sued anybody, though there have been one or two occasions I've wanted to strangle one or two people.

Men are more sentimental than women. It blurs their thinking.