There should be a stated day for commemorating the birthday of our Savior, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

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.

Life went on, despite all the dying.

I need to work on developing a new, less irritable personality. though I suspect that an empty nest would be at least a partial cure, today I resorted to substance abuse.

I do my best to love everybody...I'm hard put, sometimes- baby, its never an insult o be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.

If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

On every mountain height is rest.

True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

Aiki is not a technique to fight with or defeat an enemy. It is the way to reconcile the world and make human beings one family.

A man is in a great place when he has no one to turn to but God.

I think when you are a cool guy but also a hot guy, that makes you even more sexy.

I'm not so proud to think that anything is unworthy, and I don't think I was that way 10 years ago.