As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

Do not let one's tongue outrun one's sense.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

If one is strong be also merciful, so that one's neighbors may respect one rather than fear one.

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

Do nothing immoderate.

What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

Do not make too much haste on one's road.

The tongue should not be suffered to outrun the mind.

Learn how to regulate one's own house well.

Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.

Once a pumpkin, Always a pumpkin.

There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts.

The world is wonderful. It is beautiful when you are in a correct level of attention.

We must remember always that the essential quality of the wilderness is its wildness.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

Envy feeds on the living. It ceases when they are dead.

My dad was the funniest guy I ever knew.

We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.