A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

Creativity is infused with an inner cohesion and comes from a vision of uniqueness.

Reading, my earliest refuge in the unknown world, made me want to venture into it.

A sense of wrongdoing is an enhancement of pleasure.

Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.

I wanna design a video game where you'd have to take care of all the people shot in all the other video games.

It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other peo­ple.

I'm still not sure I didn't die

Let's have some good, old-fashioned literature, with a virgin and a moral.

Take what you can do and use it for the highest good to benefit others.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.