Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

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!

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

Polish you potentials so as to shine your credentials

Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.

I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again.

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

If it sounds good and feels good, then it IS good!

For each time you smile you will find it's true somebody, somewhere, will smile back at you.

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.