A silent address is the genuine eloquence of sincerity.

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.

The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.

Nurture a desire to be free from the clock.

It is well with my soul.

Great views are like great minds. They both give you the feeling of eternity!

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.

Man was not made for himself alone

To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.

Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our self-fashioning, no less than our clothes.

I love to teach, I love to draw, I love animals. So I don't feel like I am relying on one thing to lead me in my career.