We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.

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.

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.

Leave footprints of love and kindness on the seashore of humanity.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

My wife and I use a lot of garlic and rosemary with roast lamb. It has to be New Zealand lamb. The domestic variety is too gamy, in my experience.

Look at all the conflict between tribes, nations, and religions. They need their enemies, because they provide the sense of separateness on which their collective egoic identity depends.

I don't know if you heard, but I kind of run this place.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me.

Do not follow where the path may lead.

I was into Nickelback before they were cool.