The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions.

It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief!

God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

Drink your Desires to taste your self!

Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.

False happiness renders men stern and proud and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible and that happiness is always shared.

If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.

It feels real good to look at some of the guys who have played before me, then come in and break a record. But records are made to be broken.

Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value.

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

A lot of people say if you can't love yourself, then you can't love others. It's always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.

Fighting for survival in a shattered world... the truth is her only hope.