Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

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!

The law says do good be right. Grace says Jesus made you right so now you are good.

So close that your hand upon my chest is mine, so close that your eyes close with my sleep.

When I say be skeptical of everything I mean it. Just because someone was elected to do a job doesn't mean that person has any idea of what they're doing.

I came up with an idea to turn the cliché inside out: instead of humans threatened by zombies, what if a sympathetic zombie was threatened by humans?

Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

I am not against a little inflation.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.

...it was dangerous to overflow because we might end up finding ourselves occupied by our loved ones and drowning them with our love and enthusiasm.