Animals are such agreeable friends- they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

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.

A life based on [religious] faith is a life based on pure speculation, and speculation is, by its very definition, unsound.

Do you really understand all this army stuff?It helps not to be too bright, sir.

Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

Oh, scientific mind. You get all your data from us, the senses, but without us you would be nothing.

Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

For all-around, everyday, all-season wear, farmers can't be beat. They are inclined to chafe under the burden of leisure (a minor vexation on the farm), but they thrive on neglect and adversity.

You frighten me, when you say there isn't time." "I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia." "But it keeps not ending." "So far, so good.

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.