A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

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.

In real life, too, women love to be that girl who tames the bad boy.

I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

There will be no job cuts arising out of this merger in Europe - this is in the interest of jobs in Europe.

I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.

My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago.​

He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.

It's such a hard and scary position to be in...G-Dragon hyung is under so much pressure and there's a lot of hard work involved.

There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.