Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

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.

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?

There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it

Men die:and they are not happy.

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

Sometimes you just have the thin the herd.

In three strides Reaver was on her, his mouth crushing hers. “No more bullshit,” he said against her lips. “I want you. I think I’ve always wanted you.

the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.

Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.