Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

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.

If we all learnt cat-speak, we would often find they are saying, “You stupid human, I am trying to tell you something important right now!

You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.

Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy.

I've never flown a kite.

Tonight, they’d make their stand, once and for all.

There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

You can gain reconciliation from your enemies, but you can only gain peace from yourself.

when night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable

I'm always perversely attracted to characters that seem one thing, but are ultimately revealed as another...