Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

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.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

If we repay evil with good, then how do we repay the good?

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

Adam invented love at first sight, one of the greatest labor-saving machines the world ever saw.

I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?

... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself.

We went to the moon and discovered Earth.

Mysterious affair, electricity.

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.