[The] public path of life Is dirty.

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!

There is nothing safer than flying - it's crashing that is dangerous.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

I train for the first shot – it’s all I need.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime.

The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.

The best part is not the biggest, it's the one that's most memorable.

But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all.