Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Think about the people you love, appreciate, and admire… If today was the last day you could speak with them… What would you say… and what are you waiting for?

Sooner
 or 
later 
it 
would 
happen: 
strength 
would 
change
 into 
consciousness.

I sincerely hope that President Barack Obama’s government will be remembered as the peak of deregulated corporate corruption and not the ongoing rise of it.

I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.

You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard.

The key to a long and healthy marriage is that, honestly, there's nothing worth fighting about.

Design is a tool to help the tribe.

Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.

For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?