What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

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!

If they don't like you for who you are, it means they're not meant to be in your life.

If you want you can die any way you want, but no matter how much you try you cannot live the way you want.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does.

The flat-brimmed cap is the modern day dunce cap.

emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world is a stage.

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

Everyone has a potential for greatness.

As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt.

We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.