The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

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.

Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history

My dad used to call me "yeah but" because no matter what the answer was I always wanted to explore why things were what they were and how they might be different.

In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.

For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

Trying to be happy in this world is greatest illusion.

Hit it! You have to hit it harder than that. Electrons are timid little things but notional; you have to let them know who’s boss.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.