All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!

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's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.

Andrea raised her hand. “This is the hand that slapped Aunt B.”“Maybe you should have it gold-plated.”“Here, you can touch it, since you’re my best friend.

The answer to every adversity lies in courageously moving forward with faith.

We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.

It doesn't matter how the paint is put on, as long as something is said.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Not to intermarry racially is bad for the survival of the country.

I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.

No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.

If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership.