cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

I love the friendly faces of old sorrows

Some of the Scotland players need to look themselves in the face.

I'm persuaded that if most people saw what I see on a regular basis, they would want change.

What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

The least flexible component of any system is the user.

You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

Being an American musician means being adventurous.

It is the enemy you underestimate who kills you.