Certainty and similar states of ‘knowing what we know’ arise out of involuntary brain mechanisms that, like love or anger, function independently of reason.

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations.

Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

Out of too much learning become mad.

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.

He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.

Naught so sweet as melancholy.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

To perform you need practice, to practice you need passion.

Writing is about freedom. It may become precious and fleeting at any time. Don't let anybody shackle down your wings with doubt.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

How small regard is had to the oath of God by men professing the name of God.

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged

Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.

Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul.

Mistakes you commit through audacity are easily corrected with more audacity.

Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.