Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.

Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols.

People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.

society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!

Death is the last fact of which we can be certain.

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

Whilst you live a very little religion seems enough; but believe me, it requires a great deal when you come to die.

How I'm glad to go back home!Once I truly have no more worry. Many of those who are in a hurry Endure setbacks in the outcome.

God is in desperate search for those sons he could send to the world of sports to rule and manage it for him

You get what you want and you become its slave.

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

I got lost in him, and it was the kind of lost that's exactly like being found.

People do more for you when you make them feel important.

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

I cannot comment on a video that I have never seen or does not exist.

With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.

People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost