He is the richest who is content with the least.
Virtue in a man doesn't make you want to grab him.
[On journalists:]. . . however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Great. They can but scratch at his skin with their mice nails.
Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.
There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the two is more marked than nationality or belief: it is an opposite species altogether. It is against the unwritten laws of congeniality for them to mix. For me, a man who does not drink is distinctly indecent.
anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.
But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.
Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.
It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my heart, yes, even in my most helpless, futile, fruitless moments. The very cracks and empty crannies of my life, my perplexities and hurts and botched-up jobs, He wants to fill with Himself, His joy, His life. . . He urges me to learn of Him: 'I am gentle and humble in heart.
I felt Holmes's hand steal into mine and give me a reassuring shake. - Watson
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.