There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

The sad fact is, there are 7.220.400.641 people on the planet, but right now I haven't got a single one to talk to.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Balance and fullness exists in the polarity of all things.

I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.

Avarice is more opposite to economy than liberality.

In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew

To me the book is like having a kid. I have to let it go out in the world, and great things will happen. Maybe they won't, but it has to keep on moving.

Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.

Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.

Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.