Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.

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.

Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.

If he's not real, you'll know. Men have never washed a rented car.

You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.

She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.

Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Jesus says, "Keep your heart on the kingdom first. Keep your heart on God's love. Keep focused on the fact that you are God's beloved daughter or son. That's the truth of who you are.

The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it's been in 150 years

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.

I'm gonna find someone someday who might actually treat me well