Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

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.

I attended the University of Earth, and earned my P.H.D in life from the school of hardship.

I strike terror among men, I can't be bothered by what they think.

Reason is the presupposition of faith, and faith is the fulfillment of reason.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity.

Problems almost always create opportunities - to learn, grow and improve.

Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Power corrupts, and obsolete power corrupts obsoletely.