News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar.

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.

You don’t choose the music your enemies play, but you choose which songs you dance to.

I finally believed it was actually a beautiful thing to be unique and to be different.

But what I really want is to just swim around in a warm baby pool of these friends, jump in their dry leaf pile-to rub them all over myself, without words and clothes.

To speak algebraically, Mr. M. is execrable, but Mr. G. is (x + 1)- ecrable.

A truly wise man does not play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease.

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.

Ah, those two. In a fight, they’re lethal. Around each other, they melt.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.