All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

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.

It is better to inquire of God than seek your own ways?

A faithful dependent, I overlook his folly.

Damn Disney & all their happily-after-ever, unrealistic bullshit stories

The Lesson is, we all need to expose ourselves to the winds of change

Whites they pretended to ignore, as they busily lived mirror-image white lives.

Some say I do it this way, others say I do it that way, but I say I do it the other way.

In modern studios, we're so used to becoming little dictators; you're used to the fascism of having complete control over every element.

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.

If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble.

There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.