The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

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.

A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.

Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

If it were a choice between putting ads on Wikipedia or shutting down Wikipedia, we would then very reluctantly consider putting ads on Wikipedia.

In losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of creation.