A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

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.

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.("Talking In The Dark")

One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land.

Power should be a check on power.

I think you have a case of either 'testitis' or 'I Didn't Do My Homework Syndrome'. It's common in the Spring.

It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.

A man’s got to keep up appearances. I’ll be universally detested if everyone realizes how perfect you are.

History is not what happened but what is written down

A life of peace, purity and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.