Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

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.

Your steady rain of words soaked me to the skin

What Britain needs is an iron lady.

Forgotten is forgiven.

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

Big ideas are usually simple ideas.

But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

He [Charles II] was utterly without ambition. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration.