The sports of children satisfy the child.

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.

In fact, when I finally shuffle off this mortalcoil, you will have to pry a book out of my cold, dead hands.

Don't envy the people that are more successful than you. Rather, use their success stories to strengthen your faith in the manifestation of your positive desires.

Others may not understand your joy and contentment because of your certainty about who you are and why you exist. Don't waste your time to explain.

But thousands die without or this or that, Die, and endow a college or a cat.

In Australia...they celebrate Easter the same...by telling our children a giant bunny rabbit...left chocolate eggs in the night

Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest.

Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

Democratic senators are more scared of their base than they are of the voters.