"Abroad," that large home of ruined reputations.

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.

And remember: the flesh is as sacred as it is profane.

It could have been the whole thing where you stabbed him.

The trend is your friend except at the end where it bends.

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate, and impress the mind.

Out of near disaster, came real progress.

Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

The universe is in France; outside it, there is nothing.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.