There are many victories worse than a defeat.

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.

You can never achieve greatness until you can leave bitterness behind.

For his children, he would move mountains.

Do I always have to be dependent on ‘seeing a man with no feet’ . . . before I realize that ‘I have feet’?

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.

Mystery and innocence are not akin.

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.

The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce.

Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.

None of us are too sensitive to live our purpose.