It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.

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.

The only journey is within your spiritual self.

keep the relationship with your God private, special & unique... then ignore all the filters other Christians use to look at you...

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.

He wants his home and security, he wants to live like a sailor at sea.

We have to do the impossible, but it is possible.

I've always been entranced with theater.

Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science