In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot on the ground.

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

My father had declared a predilection for heirs general, that is, males and females indiscriminately.... I, on the other hand, had a zealous partiality for heirs male, however remote.

I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations.

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.

Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it!

When you are on the spiritual path, and you are looking for the answers outside, there is an ample of reasons, for you to deviate from the path. The path of the ultimate truth is straight way inside

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

You need to be able to express your resentment and sense of loss in a way that doesn't damage your partner.

God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts.

merry meet, merry part, and merry meet again

Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes, And give as soft attachment to thy senses, As infants empty of all thought.