We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

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.

And anyone will tell you that's the whole point. You want to meet someone who likes the same things you do, and who likes you most when you're most being yourself.

The world has been loaned to humanity by the universal powers of creation.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.

Bess had become the ocean, always breaking against the rocks but never staying broken. Her love was the ocean, too, endless and always changing, yet forever the same.

It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.

If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.

We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions.