I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate.

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.

See what love sees. Hear what love hears. Say what love says. Do what love does.

Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.

Your body tells you what it needs, and if you sleep past your alarm on a Saturday morning, it's probably because you need the sleep.

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

I can be expected to look for truth but not to find it.

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.

Most of my problems come from rejecting parts of myself.

The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.

The mistakes that people will make are of much less importance than the mistake that management makes if it tells them exactly what to do.