“Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.”

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

You’ve tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

Gentleness succeeds better than violence.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Every editor of newspapers pays tribute to the devil.

By the work one knows the workman.

We like to see others, but don’t like others to see through us.

O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

Sensible people find nothing useless.

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

I bend and do not break.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

The more wary you are of danger, the more likely you are to meet it.

Business doesn’t need more copycats. Business needs more Dreamers.

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.

You don’t want it to be a replica or an imitation.

Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

We can not imitate great souls. However to study, analyse and imbibe the principles they teach and embody, is the path of progress.

Rather hang thyself than belong to the horde of successful imitators.