When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

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.

Each of us has more intelligence than we are trained to use and the part that we get graded on in school doesn’t amount to much.

Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too."--Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam

When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.

If this world always made sense and there wasn't the gloomy dark nights that awakened your soul, you would never grow ~ you would never become, nor seek greater version of yourself.

Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?

You are all you will ever have for certain .

Im thankful for my songs being at the top of the charts but I am human - I think people still have to remember that.

God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done.

Insecurity is not just a state of mind.

IT'S funny. It doesn't work the other way round !