Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

It's about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone.. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.

The more simply we look at ticklish questions, the more placid will be our lives and relationships.

Try is a noisy way of doing nothing.

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them.

In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

It is one of the worse things you can say about somebody, they are racist.

Baby girl, Cross is a tsunami.