If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

There was nothing fake or added about him. He was all himself.

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look.

Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!

I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.

Just because you did not understand us, it did not mean we were wrong.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

I set myself that decision, otherwise I'm driving an opinion at you, and I think that would be treating you like you're an idiot. I don't want to force-feed you my opinion.