The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

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.

Find solitude and discover ways to add value to yourself

Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.

Memories leave a light in the eyes, just as plain as scars.

My name's Peter. Can I play too?

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity.

I am not your justification for existence.

We are always rushing to an appointment or trying to meet a deadline.

Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.

I feel I should be doing stupid stuff, but I'm not going to.