Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

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.

When you discipline a child, you prepare them for a responsible and accountable adulthood.

The gravity is the first thing which you don't think

He who fails to plan, plans to fail.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

The only [child welfare] systems that succeed emphasize family preservation.

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.

Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I. But I don't poke my nose into other people's affairs.

Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.