His most frequent ailment was the headache which he used to relieve by inhaling the steam of coffee.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Speaking unspoken words, music is a good way to say.

He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.

Shh, ” Cobweb said with a well-time jab of the elbow, “we might be able to get some dignity out of this, if we play our cards right.

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

While face-to-face is just as important as it ever was, now that we've got all kinds of new tools, let us tighten bonds in between those in-person moments.

In abundance prepare for scarcity.

That's what Glocks are. High-precision killing machines that scream "Daddy Issues.

Knowledge of life in the astral world leads us to a conclusion of fundamental importance, namely that the physical world is the product of the astral world.

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.