The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself.

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.

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

Denial couldn't be maintained.

With photography, I like to leave a lot of the story, even to myself.

To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

In LA, I live on sushi or salad.

What you accept in victory, you must accept in defeat.

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

Virgil and Horace [were] the severest writers of the severest age.

Valentine's Day is the hardest day of the year for a woman to get out, but everybody who is anybody and single is out that night.

The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God.