It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

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.

Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive

Only when people are aware will they start to care.

Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil."   "A which?"   "Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They date back two million years.

I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

No one's supposed to be the president. This is not England. And it's not just the Bush family, all families designate each child as having some particular trait.

As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing, but you're constantly fighting the distractions to write as well.

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.