The brain can be hoodwinked but not the stomach.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.