At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

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!

Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire.

Labor is like motherhood to most of our political leaders: a calling so fine and noble that it would be sullied by talk of vulgar, mundane things like pay.

I hate myself for loving you and the weakness that it showed. You were just a painted face on a trip down to suicide road.

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.

Bisexuality is not so much a cop-out as a fearful compromise.

Whatever the occasion, [the Queen] has a face which demonstrably says 'I don't give a royal s**t.'

The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.

I can only see it going one way, that's my way. How it's actually going to go I can't really say.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

Your depth of commitment, your quality of service, the product of your devotion -- these are the things that count in life.