The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

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.

Heat roared within him. Greedy heat. He wanted her.... She was in over her head, and it seemed... so was he.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.

Now when I have to remember a date, all I have to do is consult my rap sheet.

I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better.

And then what?" "I'll burn that bridge when I cross it.

Know honor, Yet keep humility. Be the valley of the universe! Being the valley of the universe, Ever true and resourceful, Return to the state of the uncarved block.

Stay faithful to your own discovery, leave the rest and life will take care of it.

I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.