Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

You don't ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all.

Know, then, whatever cheerful and serene supports the mind supports the body too.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

For want of timely care Millions have died of medicable wounds.

Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven.

Tis not too late to-morrow to be brave.

There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.

Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.

Every painting I've ever done has like 100 paintings under it.

The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons -- it was systemic and it was complete.

I'm definitely hesitant wearing shorts during the summer. Like for a pale person, you know, summer - everyone in the world is so excited for summer, but pale people, we're just like, oh no.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.

We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget.

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

Sometimes women entrepreneurs are their own challenge, [in terms of] believing in themselves. There is no need to apologise for being ambitious.