In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

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.

A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect.

What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.

How the mind works, by what strange paths it pursues memory.

Neuroanatomy, political history, and introspection all offer evidence that human beings are quite capable of resisting the urge to surrender to every impulse of reptilian core of brain.

It saddens me beyond my tears that love is lost within the fears.

If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city.

Appreciation is the legal tender that all souls enjoy.

Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.

Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field.

When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand.