You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

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.

Under the penitential gatesSustained by staring SeraphimWhere the souls of the devoutBurn invisible and dim.

The dark skies of despair are no match for the bright skies of hope.

In time of war the first casualty is truth.

How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free.

Clever gimmicks of mass distraction yield a cheap soulcraft of addicted and self-medicated narcissists.

Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well.

Please be slow to judge ‘brothers’ who have a different calling.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.

The number of those 19 to 25 with private insurance increased from 51 to 55.8 percent, and the percentage of uninsured fell from 33.9 percent in 2010 to 28.8 percent during the first half of 2011.

The king of comedy is dead. Richard Pryor was the king of comedy. The rest of them are the king of copycats.