Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

Opinions, theories, and systems pass by turns over the grindstone of time, which at first gives them brilliancy and sharpness, but finally wears them out.

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

Reality TV, although I'm a part of it, I think reality TV is a terrible thing.

There is no road, the road is made by walking.

Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.

Can I come in? No! I'm in a towel! I'm blind!

Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

States Rights died at Appomattox.