To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

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 I wasn't me, you wouldn't be you.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Your wisdom should be without pride.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.