Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

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.

A toastmaster is a man who eats a meal he doesn't want so he can get up and tell a lot of stories he doesn't remember to people who've already heard them.

Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space Come once a day to suffocate the sight.

This aint the life that I'm used to, reintroduced to people I've been introduced to.

The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

Everybody seems to know me. It's very strange

Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.

Do you trust me? The question is usually asked before an admission that such trust is misplaced.

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.