Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

We fail to succeed

The earliest childhood memories are woven by shadows. And some of these shadows are woven from fire.

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

Nothing is worth doing pointlessly.

If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base of income. Otherwise, you're going to get corrupted and destroyed.

What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes, And give as soft attachment to thy senses, As infants empty of all thought.