Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!

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!

Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Miranda waited. No voice spoke. No heavenly choir broke out in song. God Himself did not call her name. She frowned. Typical.

The career of flowers differs from ours only in inaudibleness. I feel more reverence as I grow for these mute creatures whose suspense or transport may surpass my own.

I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.

I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

Right now we have a bipartisan debate commission, when most Americans are not members of the bipartisan establishment.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.