the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

CA means Charismatic Amalgamation of great experiences of life. I am a Chartered Accountant.

Your mind is like this water, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.

If your fancied god hates those you hate, then, this bumbling idiot is as little, and as buggered, as you are, O' little one.

Showing up is eighty percent of life.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.