Affliction is a good man's shining time.

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!

Maybe the Americans should have brought baseballs instead of bombs.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold.

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

This flick is all I have to say about being 17, the United States Navy, Christmas and the Fourth of July.

I think it's safe to say that it's rather premature for anyone to make any initial assessment or analysis of Kim Jong-un, or have an accurate impression on Kim Jong-un.

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

‎No one remembers the singer. The song remains.

The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness