There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

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.

I have come to hide you, ” darkness told the star. “I'm too bright, ” the defiant star replied.

But then, even with cuts, bruises and blood all over him, he looked like his jackass self again."- Alex Gold

A real collector does not sell.

Who can estimate the wealth of worth caged in a little child?

When I first started out, I was a bad actor.

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.

All you have to do is get in a closer walk with God and you'll find your enemies are in your own church.

So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea.

In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons.