And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

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.

What is beautiful is goodand who is good will soon be beautiful.

Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler.

Cynicism is a disease. Optimism is the cure.

The petty worries of theschool room must not be carried to your home or boarding place.

Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

The more you expand your awareness, the more naturally you will be present without effort.

I'd read about Los Angeles and this fact stuck in my mind: that the city gained 1,000 new people every day. In 1956! A thousand people every day! I felt: 'I want to be part of that.

I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.

When there's uncertainty they always think there's another shoe to fall. There is no other shoe to fall.

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.