I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.

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.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

Never let yourself be seduced by any problem, no matter how difficult.

I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!

You can't replace a tree anyway. Like people, you don't know how big they were till they're gone.

For me, a garden is peace of mind. It immediately takes my mind off the thing I'm puzzling about in my work and gives me repose.

To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.

Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

Ninety percent of what youre saying isnt coming out of your mouth.