Whate'er th' Almighty's subsequent command His first command is this - "Man love thyself."

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!

What you believe and hold close to your heart, you will become.

It was clear that most of my insecurities originated from my need to have things be “perfect.” I wasn’t sure what bothered me more

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

I want people to enjoy the simplicity in the natural.

I believe in my heart that I am ready to work to restore America to its rightful place in the world.

It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for a fleeting moment.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.

There is a limited number of plots. There is no limit to the number of stories.

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.