What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.

A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.

We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may "conquer" them.

The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.

I'm glad you asked. It has nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.

Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.

The net effect of the distortion of the First Amendment is to require that wherever the state is, religion must be excluded.

The truth is never dangerous. Except when told.

The spiritual mind is always metaphorical. Spiritual thinking is poetic thinking. It's always trying to put a very diaphanous experience into words, realizing all the while that words are inadequate.