Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

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.

It was as if I was automatically one of them because I smoked.

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein

The quiet between them had gone on for far too long now to pretend it was anything other than what it was. There were no more words

You would think it best to save your breath for running, but I often find screaming helps.

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

A military life has ever comported with my inclination.

To share is precious, pure and fair. Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?

Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.

Let all your thinks be thanks.

I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.