Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

I would have been glad if it had been the Lord's will to let one of my children live.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.

According to a new study, Botox injections can help back pain. So you see, that's why John Kerry had all that Botox - his back was killing him from all that flip-flopping on issues.

Bye, Tess. haunt me if you like. I don't mind.

Un-forgiveness is like cancer; it eats you from the inside out.

If the beard gives a modifier to seduction, I'm guessing it's not a positive one.

She grabbed his face and pulled him into a kiss, which effectively shut him up.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one