He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

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.

The way you see the world is how you live it.

Grief, as in everything, should be experienced in moderation. There is a time to grieve heavily but then there is a time to set it aside and become happy in life again.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.

It's very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.

A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends.

What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?

In Canada, we have so much land, so much space, and so few people.