If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

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.

If I had lost everything and was out on the streets with no money I would go sit in the library and read and meditate for weeks at a time.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service.

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am.

So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.

I guess a lot of bands play around until they come up with something they like.

You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun.

Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.