Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

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.

it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end

With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns - you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!

I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.

The Moral Majority supports legislators who oppose abortions but also oppose child nutrition and day care. From their perspective, life begins at conception and ends at birth.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

I hadn’t wanted to have a kid until I met my partner.

When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides.

There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children.

We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?