Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast.

A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason

My brain and this world don't fit each other; and there's an end of it.

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.