All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.

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.

Life is a sea of vibrant color. Jump in.

To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.

Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset

Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been

Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will.

The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.

To a drinker the sensation is real and pure and akin to something spiritual: you seek; in the bottle, you find.

You have to have a certain persona to be a star, you know, and I don't have that. I'm a banana.

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments.