To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain.

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!

Great poets are great copy editors.

I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

We must never violate principles. We must never initiate violence. And we should never harm the innocent. But at some point, unless governments back off, we have to stop being nice.

Over and over again, we must stress that a healthy ecology is the basis for a healthy economy.

If you've got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine.

Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here somewhere as real close-up. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased, so... It's not a pleasant feeling!

No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.

My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.