Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it.

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.

You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them...

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

The lesson is clear: As impractical as it may sound, the safest and most secure way to lead your life is to follow your dream.

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.

I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.

Seek first what is true and of value, and then whatever happiness follows will be of the appropriate quantity and, more importantly, quality.

I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.

You don't see your own face, your own beauty Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.......... .

Present opportunities are neglected, and attainable good is slighted, by minds busied in extensive ranges and intent upon future advantages.