I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

I have yet to find a man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

The artist doesn’t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don’t have the time to read reviews.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

What makes night within us may leave stars.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Relativity applies to physics, not ethics.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.