At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. - Mannequin: My Life as a read more

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. - Mannequin: My Life as a Model.

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be read more

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's read more

I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the read more

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's read more

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.