A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

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.

Stories are not real life, stories are pieces of morality made entertaining.

Or help one fainting RobinUnto his Nest againI shall not live in vain.

When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Art is not a mirror. Art is a hammer.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.

Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.