Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs.

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.

Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

It took greater energy to be able to focus when heardthe voice of wisdom in a hustle bustle than in serenity.

But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.

We will all be gone one day. Not as a negative thing - as a positive thing, too, you know, and we should leave something behind ourselves.

The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love.

The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge.

The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb.

At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for whatever it is they do.

Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.