Trouble's made us kin.

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.

The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.

If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

You cannot save every fallen bird," said Woolsey. "One will do," said Magnus.

There is a safe spot within every tornado. My job is to find it.

It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.

Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.

They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.

O braggart vile and damned furious wight!