We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

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.

All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhere to appeal and nowhere to go.

Grease the guillotine with the fat of tyrants. Pull the concubine out of the clergyman's bed. Monarch's blood must flow, as thick as our boots. From there the free republic will rise.

Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious.

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

Women want a man who can say I love you every night and prove it every day

Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

Well there are a lot of things I like to eat but at this time of year I'm finding I'm making fig and chèvre salad at least once a week and that's a combo that's hard to beat.

The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.