Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

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.

Pain is the clarion of aliveness trumpeting that you are living in the marvelous tender cause of life!

It’s as if people used the invention

If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.

Not just chubby fat, I'm talkin' gordo

I would like people to come into my Dreamworld and then choose to stay.

There's never too much stuff going up people's butts.

I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience.

God has given us control over one thing in our lives - our thoughts.

I want to open my own yoga studio. Planning construction and looking at properties is fun.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.