Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

Imagination is the air of mind.

Music tells no truths.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Kindness is wisdom.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

The sole equality on earth is death.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

Joys Are bubble like what makes them bursts them too.

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul

Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.

It matters not how long we live but how.

Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.

On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts.

In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work for a writer. You can't put stuff out there without someone calling you a complete fool. Oh, well.

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it. There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation.

Skating takes up 70 percent of my time, school about 25 percent. Having fun and talking to my friends, 5 percent. It's hard. I envy other kids a lot of things, but I get a guilt trip when I'm not training.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Birds have wings; they're free; they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.