In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.

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.

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

What I am saying is, ‘Know the science’. Know what is Soul (The True Self) and Non-Soul (Everything other than the Soul). Upon knowing this, all desires will vanish.

Sometimes you wonder why you’re out here. And the stupid thing about it, is you haven’t got an answer." - excerpt from: freefalling

He who learns and learns and yet does not know what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows.

Information cannot serve as an effective substitute for thinking.

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos.

We're waiting for a glance or a word, some acknowledgement that we are here.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.