Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone.

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.

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

It'd hardly be worth having a brother at all, if you couldn't smack him in the head every once in a while.

Faithfulness is produced by the Holy Spirit in a yielded Christian life.

The press was ruthless, but then so was the church.Flavia de Luce

Be silent and listen to the song of your soul.

What you post on Facebook represents you, it can make you look bitter or better, forgiving or frustrated, resentful or rejoicing, choose wisely.

The heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes.

Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.

The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded.

The highest vocation of photography is to explain man to man.