Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

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.

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

I just said to myself, She's just like you, you know, she can be nervous

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

History is not the soil of happiness. The periods of happiness are blank pages in it.

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.

To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely mistaken.

Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.