The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes.

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.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

Do anything totally and it is finished

The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory.

I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesnt date.

Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.

This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.

I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.

In a battle between two ideas, the best one doesn't necessarily win. No, the idea that wins is the one with the most fearless heretic behind it.