It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

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.

Now it was just the two of us, Max and me. And about a thousand other people around us.

I stood there in the shadowed doorway thinking with my tears. Yes, tears can be thoughts, why not?

Our Father let the spirit of gratitude so prevail in our hearts that we may manifest thy Spirit in our lives.

It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

Interspersed in lawn and opening glades, Thin trees arise that shun each others' shades.

Honor the hands that harvest your crops.

Buried under the biggest burden is a good place to find an even bigger blessing.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.