I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

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.

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all.

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

Life lives only in success.

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell.

Every epigram should resemble a bee; it should have sting, honey, and brevity.

Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.

A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!