I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

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.

I’ve read Hamlet, I know men suffer.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

The jealousy and resentment that animate the terrorists also affect many of our former cold war allies.

A failure to understand something does not mean it is irrational. It may simply mean that it lies on the far side of our limited abilities to take things in and make complete sense of them.

Jazz is America's classical music.

Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

Be awesome. Live life to the fullest. Shoot for the stars and never settle.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long.