Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

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.

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

Don't ignore your dreams, in them your soul is awake and you are your true self.

BREXIT?So mental a political tap dance, that it makes riding a porcupine bareback over a cliff seem the only sane thing to do.

When you believe marriage is your answer, you'll often give something that eventually hurts you both.

Men kill for many reasons, they steal but for one-greed.

I feel fantastically geeky. [But] I'm not one of those people who's enormously proud of being a geek, but nor am I particularly ashamed of it.

If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion.

My ultimate goal is to play in the Masters.

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.