Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

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.

If you keep standing on the verge of greatness, you'll eventually get the courage to leap into it,

Set aside your repertoire of objections and own 100 percent of your focus.

It's probably good for your body and brain to get moving occasionally.

I really do want to have a child.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

People don't like preaching, but discussion, presenting a case, and that's important. Therefore, I think we need to learn to dialogue much more.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

If God doesn't build the vision, He will tear it down.

I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms!