It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue.

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 people we adore in our lives brighten our days and illuminate our nights.

To amaze yourself, lift your spirit and see through your love the beauties of life.

My months are spent preparing for the fall.

Anyone can conquer anything, but the conquest of self frees the ego, and rewards one with limitless boundaries

A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value.

As Mark Twain said, 'I love Wagner -- if only they'd cut out all that damned singing!'

I am whelmed, and not overly whelmed, just whelmed about a lot of facets in life - just how fragile life is and the different challenges you have in life, phobias about things.

I got some bad ideas in my head.

I don't feel as if I'm in competition with myself; not at all.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti