He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties.

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 wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes.

Directors are never in short supply of girlfriends.

Your best friend should bring out the best in you

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody.

I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.

Be not dishearten'd -- Affection shall solve the problems of Freedom yet; Those who love each other shall become invincible.