If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.