There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

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.

Water doesn't know where it's going to flow, it just flows.

He’d been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless.

People who don't see their own nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are liars and fools.

It is not what you say or hope or wish or intend but only what you do that counts. Your choices tell you unerringly who you really are.

I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep track of plot threads, characters, and so on).

Right as an aspen lefe she gan to quake.

Rob a neighbour with a smile.

I feel so terrible for the kids now. In London, even people in their forties can't afford to buy a house or have kids.

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

We need to understand that every time an elementary teacher captures the imagination of a child through the arts or music of language this nation gets a little stronger.