It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.

Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream.

Never stop striving to become a better version of you.

There is a wide distinction between confessing sin as a culprit, and confessing sin as a child. The Father's bosom is the place for penitent confessions.

Tradition is not only bending down, or process of benign transmission. It is also a conflict between past genius and present aspiration in which the price is literary survival or canonical inclusion.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

My priority is always the family and Victoria [Beckham] and I always ensure we are there for our children. We work hard but family comes first.

A chiropractor accomplished in three weeks what the army doctors haven't been able to do in two years.

I did not get a million-dollar or multimillion-dollar loan from my dad.

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.