Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.

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.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!

Don't ever think you're alone here, We've just been trapped in different hells, And people aren't against you dear, They're just all for themselves.

We should live and learn but by the time we've learned it's too late to live.

Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Life is what you make it.

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.

The more successful you are, the more mistakes you will make. People who don't do anything, don't make mistakes.

First of all, I don't think that America is truly prepared for a biological or a chemical attack. However, we are moving in the right direction.