One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

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!

sometime life is full of joy, and sometime life is full of pain and tears but we have to defeat it

You cannot honor God without honoring people first

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'

Never we sleep, a thug doesn't rest, Cause a wise man said: it was a cousin of death.

Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

In fine, the truffle is the very diamond of gastronomy.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.

Everybody wants to collaborate with me. I was going to collaborate with Whitney Houston, but she died. Very sad, man. We were very good friends.

Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.