The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

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.

Kitty need's a tounge bath

Sometimes when you’re struggling to see kindness in the world, you need to be the creator of it to remind yourself it does exist.

I will live this life the only way I know how. With love at its core. With love in my heart.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

Courage, energy and patience are the virtues which appeal to my heart.

Gaming is the destruction of all decorum; the prince forgets at it his dignity, and the lady her modesty.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.