Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

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 outcome is not up to you. The outlook is.

Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.

I want to be all used up when I die.

The World is what we think it is. If we can change our thoughts, we can change the world.

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing; Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.

The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.

As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.

I don't like bungee jumping, but I do like skiing.

It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.