You must be respectable, if you will be respected.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Šausmīgi daudz taisnību. Nojukt var, ja nav savējās.

Adversity is the evil twin of reward.

For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok?

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

Jesus Christ said turn the other cheek. Unfortunately Luis Figo is not Jesus Christ.

I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.

Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me.

there are some things in life a person just cant know

The only way you find what your limits are is by pushing them.