Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

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!

When I use a word, ’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.

To believe a thing is not to make it true.

You get a timeless cool card in New York.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Win and you are the superior being in all the universe; lose, and may the fleas of a million rodents, infect your every orifice.

There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.

Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

Physics is the most fundamental, and least significant, of the sciences.

Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.