Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

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.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

The only limitation we have is the limitation of the mind

The holy time establish the holy-event.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.

...there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

Usually, I take a hike for a while after submitting a column to Townhall. Too much of my insensitivity can cause emotional problems among proggies, and I am, after all, a compassionate man.

What a young musician's dream, to say, "Look at those chrome drums. Look at that 22-inch ride cymbal. I'll have those." It was one of those unparalleled exciting days of your life.

I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust