If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.

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.

Being our best involves walking away from every situation with less than what we had when we encountered it because we left something behind in the exchange.

When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles.

And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl.

The man who starts out simply with the idea of getting rich won't succeed, you must have a larger ambition.

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education.