Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.

It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.

As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven, Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator, And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

Why is it so difficult for us to think in relative terms? Well, for the good reason that human nature loves absoluteness, and erroneously considers it as a state of higher knowledge.

It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.

To my astonishment I saw him standing at a table with Kitty Jones. It was the Kitty Jones bit that was astonishing. Not the table. Though it was very nicely polished.

All water is holy water.

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.

I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.

I could really try new things. That was satanism, it works really well, I made a pact.

Seek the silence frequently. Power comes from repose.

Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.

I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought this have bought that.

I'm careful with my heart. I don't take crap from no one these days. I put my foot down. Being a woman, you deserve heaven and earth.

I grew up in a house with dogs. We always had dogs. We always had a bunch of dogs, actually.

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.