Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

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!

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

There were so many of these moments that could never be captured accurately, even in the camcorder, only in the heart.

Tea- The sweetness of love, The fragrance of flowers, The comfort of a friend, The warmth of a hug-Such great delight gingerly poured from a single pink teapot.

We aren't cool and never will be.

Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.

Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.

Zac Efron would make us feel guilty for eating big dinners. He'd say, 'Do you really want to eat those carbs?' It was like, 'Thanks a lot!'

Everyone has as much right as he has might.

Should not the role of design be to reconnect human beings with their space on their land?

For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.