To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

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.

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read.

The paper burns, but the words fly free.

I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.

Prayer is the key discipline whereby all spiritual work is done.

The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars.

A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.

If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality.

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.