The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying..

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do..

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship..

He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity - a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation..

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes..

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mank….

There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books..

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong..

It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest..

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out..

You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never..

Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it..

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty..

I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have n….

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar….

It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where grave….

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refug….

Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?.

The families of our friends are always a disappointment..

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook..

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day..