The devil tempts us not--'tis we tempt him, Reckoning his skill with opportunity.

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 hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend.

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

The more laws that are written, the more criminals are produced.

I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.

A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety.

Forever may it remain that way. And may God bless these now-found souls.

[Leftists] have all these embeds in their bureaucracy and in the judiciary. So even when they lose elections they have ample positions of power occupied by career invisibles.

I unfortunately have never in my life been to a wild party.