The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

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.

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."pg 337

Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - write what you must.

A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.

Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.

This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.

We are all eccentrics in our dreams. Lunatics, even.

I'm like the Christina Aguilera of the Internet.

The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work.

Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.