If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

We can tell a lot about a woman from her books.

If we listen and observe carefully the dying can teach us important things that we need to learn in preparing for the end of our own life's journey.

It was rather awkward, insofar as we were both teetering between the possibility of something and the possibility of nothing.

The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.

It isn't something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are 'marked' with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.

There's enough Ferraris here to eat a plate of spaghetti.

Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?

One of the things Donald Trump has criticized Hillary [Clinton] for is discrediting women who said they'd had affairs or been sexually harassed by her husband.