None think the great unhappy but the great.

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!

Where religion clashes with science is that religion makes smart people do stupid things.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

In thought I am living wholly with Theo and Vincent, oh, the infinitely delicate, tender and lovely [quality] of that relation[ship].

I admire your capacity for admiring.

My father told me very early on that it was a sin to worry too much.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

Beginnings are easy, the thing is to finish the race