Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

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 more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him.

People who fail, excel at avoiding opportunity.

Gratitude is really, really attractive. A child who is genuinely grateful makes you want to do anything for her, and that is true of adults as well.

I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.

I wake up every morning excited. Rather than become complacent or overwhelmed, I've made a choice for life - and I can do something about it.

We believe that all men are the spirit children of God, created in his image. This concept is supported by the Holy Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

We really don't have a policy [on climate change]. There's a lot of rhetoric and not a lot of action.

Every discrimination against women in the constitutions and laws of the several States is today null and void, precisely as in every one against Negroes.

I think simplicity's beautiful when you do it in the right way.