Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

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 virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.

I believe in one truth is horror, truth puts you in the darkness and it's difficult to find way out, lies are the lightness you hear the stuff which you want to hear.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

Sum up at night what thou has done by day.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

I've never been particularly ambitious. I'm driven by the moment.

Negative thinking is prevalent, in particular, among so many women in their later years, and, as a result, they live out their lives in discontent.

Happiness is a powerful thing. It freed me to do what I always wanted to do.

What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return