It's no use filling your pocket with money if you have got a hole in the corner.

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 nights are always meaningless without hopes for tomorrow.

She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.

The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy.

For something to hurt that bad, and feel so good, it's just inexplicable.

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.

I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.

each separate flower has a magic all its own.

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.