In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

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.

Breakthroughs arise when someone can combine many ideas together. Think broadly, not deeply.

If you want to win, don’t just dream it. Act on it.

For the first time, he looked at her, and she wasn’t a stranger, she was Clary—his friend. His family. The girl he’d sworn always to protect. The girl he loved as fiercely as he loved himself.

It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

O fallen angel, the companion within me, whisper something holy before you pinch me into the grave.

I take that back. If Hank wants to shoot Scott, he has my blessing.

The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong.

In America, we are putting our energy companies out of business. We have to bring back our workers.

We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

You didn’t hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won’t hurt.