Wonder is involuntary praise.

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!

Life is about discovering things worth dying for.

Violence begins when imagination fails.

Also, I'm angry. I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why does it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the 20th century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.

I just want a quiet life. I think that's what everybody says when they get older.

Not to sound too pathetic, but there have been long stretches where I haven't been able to get a job.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.