What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

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.

Some people use language as a mask. And some want to create designed language that appears to reveal them but does not.

Not every smile is genuine some are just the bared fangs of wolves about to eat you - rjs

You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

I’ve had those relationships, and you have to make those mistakes to find out what we really want.

[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

The truly thankful person is a truly peaceful person.

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

When people give away stocks based on forced selling or fear that is usually a great opportunity.

It's actually harder to write a fun song.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.