The soul of man was made to walk the skies.

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!

No violence, gentlemen — no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!

The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.

The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia.

When something is empty, fill it. When something is full, empty it. When you have an itch, scratch it.

I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?

I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.

I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.

The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you.

The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.