In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

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.

I don't write romance. Read it? Yes. Write it? No.

The answer to most prayers is no.

Some people are hard to forget, but some people are hard to remember.

Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

When it's time to pull and tuck, I'm sure I will consider it.

I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable...

The best farming systems are ones where animals and plants are put into a synergistic relationship.

You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.