"Imitation is the sincerest of flattery."

"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value is seldom appreciated until it is lost."

"If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city."

"We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"If universal charity prevailed, Earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable."

"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your effort to believe it."

"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."

"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."

"How should they answer?"

"Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, and when you have it, you have it all over."

"Most of us would like to be smarter than we are, stronger than we are, richer than we are, but we don't feel all that comfortable with people who are."