I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.

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.

Morality is always prejudicial.

High-quality professions look decently, think profoundly, and act thoughtfully.

As long as you keep on walking on the old paths, you will never have footprints on the new paths!

I don't do acid anymore, so I travel instead.

The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader and then the dream.

It is only when a woman is economically empowered that she can negotiate at household level with her husband about the number of children that body of hers can have.

The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.

Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?

I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!