Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

The more you become aware of and respond to the needs of others, the richer your own life becomes.

Light was the first thing that came into existence, first in the order of creation.

When stumbling blocks can become stepping stones, then these stones that the builders reject can equally become chief corner stones!

I'm still amazed by the process of recording.

Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks.

Good manners are a part of good morals.

Very rarely do actors, even with features, get to live with a part for that long and really dig into it.

I am my clients. I am defined by who I do business with.

The most important thing is to just be good at what you do.

Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.