The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

A great perfumer can take the visual perfection of living flowers and materials and elongate and morph it's lifespann into olfactory bliss.

Once you know that you have a voice, ” Louis said, “it’s no longer the voice that matters, but what is behind the voice.

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.

A wise man needes not blush for changing his purpose.

Could I have a Sloe Gin Fizz, without the gin?" "What's the point of that, Miss?" the waiter said. "Tomorrow morning," Mabel said.

Every gift of God is to be enjoyed as from God and not like a God.

Game of Thrones' is an amazing show, and I have no problem speaking of the virtues of HBO.

I am drawn to the ways in which we are shaped by people and by place.

Rise above principle and do what is right.