The purpose firm is equal to the deed

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!

Regret drives us to repentance, and repentance leads us to God.

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.

Employers, like most people, tend to trust their intuitions. But when employers decide whom to hire, they trust those intuitions far more than they should.

The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.

Doubt, skepticism, innovation, and inquiry are the only means by which wonder, beauty, awe, and symmetry will be discovered.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.