Pity swells the tide of love.

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!

As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen a voice in the governing of this great nation.

Music doesn't solve your problems..but allows you to dance all over them

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

I am but a small shard in a grand mosaic.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.