Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

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.

You cannot travel to the known

When ghettos become the mainstream of society, islands of individuality cannot help but harbor an elite.

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

Street sign: Ho Hum Road & Easy Street In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.

I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.