The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

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.

He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

The day before the anniversary of D-Day, we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.

If you take the same child and put them in two different places, it will dramatically shape the way in which their economic outcomes are realized later in life.

Because there can be consequences for saying the first thing that pops into our heads, it is prudent to exercise tact.

If we discount the account of creation, we remove the significance of Christmas.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.