Nature delights in progress; in advance.

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 proof that most people don’t know how to measure their life by converting time into products is reflected in what they do with their free vacation time.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

I don't pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

Cannabis always made me paranoid; I felt like people were watching me. And now I'm sober, and I've got this talk show in the middle of the night on CBS, and I now know that no one is watching me.

A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

I come from a huge family. I am used to taking orders and being told what to do and not having an opinion, but I think that what I've gone through made me really sensitive to other people.

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.

We need to participate directly in the evolution of consciousness, which, at its core, is the evolution of love.

In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.