Order is the primary regulation of the celestial regions.

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

Young men! it 's a critical thing to go Exactly right with a lady in tow; But when you are in the proper track, Just go ahead, and never look back!

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

Long pains are light ones, Cruel ones are brief!

The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind.

God bless the man who first invented sleep!" So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.

I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt, If one be better with them or without,-- Unless he use them wisely, and, indeed, Knows the high art of what and how to read.

Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because we don't know what to do with it.

Choose to put yourself first and make you a priority. It's not selfish, it's necessary.

To be angry implies you care

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents

The world, as it is, is not a permanent reality, but is a temporary product of our choices as creators.

Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

I haven't even ever wanted to distort. I isolate and represent.

As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.