To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

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.

Where does it lead, this rockrose path?

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

It isn't true that the laws of nature have been capriciously disturbed; that snakes have talked; that women have been turned into salt; that rods have brought water out of rocks.

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

I've never been shocked by anything on television, except the news.

Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you.

I have not been recognized.

It is to TV that I owe my freedom from bondage of the Latin lover roles. Television came along and gave me parts to chew on. It gave me wings as an actor.

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.