Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

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.

History is us squinting into the past, mistaking millions of tiny vibrations in all directions for unified, unidirectional movements by entire civilizations.

The wonder of the womb is the birth of a child.

I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.- Ellen West

We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking through it.

Yo Mama’s so ugly, her dentist treats her by mail order.

Marriage ain't easy but nothing that's worth much ever is.

A youth of frolic, an old age of cards.

Doing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church.

This is what is meant by last words: they are keys to unlock the afterlife. They're not last words but passwords, and as soon as they're spoken you can go.

No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.