In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

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.

The more you appreciate, the more you have to appreciate.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.

Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

Our differences should not be exaggerated.

I don't date rock 'n' rollers. I just marry them.

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

We are what we wear, we wear what we are

I share Len Saunders’ concerns about childhood obesity and getting kids to be active beginning at an early age.

Why have I always been forbidden to touch him? (Stryker) Ours it not to question why. Ours is but to live or die. (Apollymi)

Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall