Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning 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.

Unfortunately I never learnedhow to touch my truth without breaking it.

To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight.

Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

If you will respond to the invitation to share your beliefs and feelings about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, a spirit of love and a spirit of courage will be your constant companion.

When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent.

I kind of think we have too many guns in this country.

If something scares me, then I have to do it.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

Where is the Life we lost in living?