bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

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.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Whoever insults the message of Mohammed is going to be subject to capital punishment.

Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our own minds what to believe.

Be bold, but be fair. Don't give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail

I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick.

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

You can't just do cheap CGI and think that's going to work. It doesn't.

t I think what [James Mattis] will do with the deal is monitor it very, very carefully and make sure that Iran is complying with every stipulation of it.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

Life begins at age forty.