Things are achieved when they are well begun.

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 tragedy is that what you disapprove of in others is the very thing you disapprove of in yourself.

To gain height, lose all your tall friends.

The sharp light of the stars and moon sliced away her misconceptions and pared down their layers until the feelings that had always existed between them lay bare.

That's life. The older you get, the tougher it is to score.

Atlanta is not like New York, where everybody piles into one place.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

You still need to save but being debt-free in retirement is and should be a goal.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.