By every remove I only drag a greater length of chain.

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.

Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.

Love always hurts, Always. It’s what you do with it that makes it durable.

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see...

Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.

We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars.