According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

If odours may worke satisfaction, they are so soveraigne in plants and so comfortable that no confection of the apothecaries can equall their excellent vertue.

The savor of the water mint rejoiceth the heart of men.

A mystifying sensation of loneliness shook him. Arthur had been alone before, to be sure, but to be alone while surrounded by people, the one sane man in a mad place - that was loneliness.

There is nothing wrong with making money, but that's not particularly inspiring.

The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.

If you're sick, take your sick day. If you don't take your sick day, know what your reward is? You weren't sick - that was the reward.

Take what you can from your dreams, Make them as real as anything...

Fortunately, all it takes for us to be of one mind is some buttercream frosting.

I never feel like I have to hang on to the music. I don't expect that the music will go away. Ideas are the only thing I can point to that are permanent and fixed.

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

It's slow. It's inch by inch. But nature always bats last. The planet isn't going anywhere.

Political parties are complicated coalitions and aren't excessively theoretical.