Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

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.

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.

... if you keep an open mind, life will show you a way out of your problems.

The hatred of hatred is still hate.

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black.

May all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love.

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise.