Truth never was indebted to a lie

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!

She didn't do people, dammit. She did books. A world of difference

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons

There is a Pirate in every one of us

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition.

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.

The problem is that the Enlightenment dream may make too many demands on poor African apes like us. We may just not be up to it.

The highway of Christian living is strewn with has-beens.

Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.

You still indulge in distrustful fears that things will go wrong, or that people will betray you, or mistreat you; get above all of them.