Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

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!

Control what you can control.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

Business is never as healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

Wisdom corresponds to the future; it is philosophy.

There is a worry that many have expressed that, on the naturalistic way of approaching philosophical questions, philosophy will somehow be co-opted by science. I'm not much worried about this.

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

I enjoy my time alone.

To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.