And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

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.

Equip yourself for your own needs.

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.

weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

You don't have to think about love; you either feel it or you don't.

If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.

there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.

I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions.

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.