If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion.

This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.

This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd,
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

'Tis fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.

You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.

You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.

In native worth and honour clad.

In native worth and honour clad.

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of read more

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be read more

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.