What is revenge but courage to call in our honor's debts, and wisdom to convert others' self-love into our own protection?

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!

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

I can only ask of those who care about me and the issues in my case to support me and spread the word about what is going on.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.

It's amazing and a miracle that any film gets made, you have so many moving parts.

Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation!

Your son and your daughter needs an excellent father more than an excellent college.

By periodically investing in an index fund, the know-nothing investors can actually outperform most investment professionals.