The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

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!

Suffering is the sorrow of joy.

Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

The wielders of power did not speak for it, nor did they naturally serve it. Their interest was to use and develop power, no less natural and necessary than liberty but more dangerous.

Yoga is the only exercise on this planet from which you gain energy instead of burning energy.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.

What happens to us in life is less important; the real question can be whether or not we use the experience to grow.

But I'm very happy with my life the way it has been turning out. A little time in the country, a little time with the animals and working on behalf of them.

Show me a woman with a subscription to a bridal magazine and I'll show you someone who doesn't even have a boyfriend.