It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

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.

The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: feeling.

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality, " but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.

There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.