Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

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.

In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out perceived flaws in God's art.

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

Love's a thin Diet, nor will keep out Cold.

One finds nobility in the oddest places.

We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

Could have recovered greenness?

We never love with all our heart and all our soul but once, and that is the first time.

Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

We only deliberately waste time with those we love -- it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence when we could be doing something more 'constructive.