What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.