The years seem to rush by now and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

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.

She ignores me, so I cup my hands over my mouth and do something I haven’t done in years— barnyard sounds.

Women always have some mental reservation.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

We become in part what our senses take in.

You couldn't catch a mouse if leaped in between your paws!

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.

People think of you differently if you've been in their homes. They think they own you because they watched you while they were eating dinner, or they can turn you up or down, or even freeze you.

The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things.