Our chief comforts often produce our greatest anxieties, and the increase in our possessions is but an inlet to new disquietudes.

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.

Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports.

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

When government does more than guard against the initiation of force, inevitably it becomes a means of theft and bamboozlement.

If you break a discipline once, the next transgression becomes much easier.

People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.

Always wake up with a smile on your face, because a lot of people who went to sleep last night are not with us this morning.

Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.