Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up.

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 love is to let someone live in the goodness of your heart.

Realize clarity from calamity.

If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for resisting any topside advances.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

I was always drawn to tough girls. I liked that domineering thing.

The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone.

How do you hold down government spending?

But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future.