There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

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.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

In the sinking sand, where we’ve come to rest, have I had a hand in your loneliness?

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.

Regulations are all very well for drill, but in the hour of danger they are no more use. You have to learn to think.

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

Maybe I didn't go to the sexy football school, but I paved my way.

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.