Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

We are here on planet Earth to learn lessons and to grow in loving knowledge.

Our fellowship is with God when we have mutual fellowship with one another

There's no conversation more boring than talking about what it's really like to live in Newport and how the show compares to the real thing. I just don't care.

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it.

God must love the rich or he wouldn't divide so much among so few of them.

Hey-hey-hey-hey! Smoke weed every day!

The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

If, as I suspect, the American consumer now enters a sustained slowdown, there will be unmistakable reverberations on U.S.-centric export flows in many major regions of the world.