I always get the better when I argue alone.

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.

O Lord my God, revive my soul!

The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.

To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.

I have more influence now than when I had the power.

If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.

I’ve questioned everything about myself, every step of the way. You have to have the same amount of fear and self-doubt as you do hope and blind optimism.