Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs.

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!

Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.

Let your words be petty and actions plenty!

Energy is contagious and infectious and whether it is the good kind or the bad kind—other people feel it.

I'm always looking for challenges.

What's happened is the Republicans have been smart.

I'm a happy camper because by doing this I have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of research.

I've always said I'm going to get married only once.

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.

Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?

The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.