I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!

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.

In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leap—that ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the other—is a virtue and a blessing.

There is a road which leads to all roads. The name of that road is adventure!

Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Must the hunger become anger and the anger fury before anything will be done?

A man hears what he wants to hear, and disregards the rest. I think that kind of thing is an abuse of history.

Most people over estimate others talents and underestimate their own.

The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is.

There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable.