Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken.

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.

the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.

I have woken up…quite sloshedfrom night-mingled rainsa little drugged, by mountain fogsI have been kidnappedfor years....by a mere kiss.

Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one's total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.

Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.

The Devil is a woman.

We had two grand antique professors who had been teaching at Lombard since before I was born.

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place.

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was