Temperance is a bridle of gold; he, who uses it rightly, is more like a god than a man.

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.

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

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.

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

We cannot change the country, if our life has not been changed

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

If you worry about who is going to get credit, you don't get much work done.

We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.

If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.

There are only two kinds of pain: too much love or too little.

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

We want playmates we can own.

There was a loophole in the law that said if I was working, I could be in the clubs as long as I didn't drink alcohol and had someone with me.