“Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.” - Emily Dickinson A very busy Saturday today, which was all spent proof-...

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” - Mark Twain A classic dish for this F...

“We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.” Havelock ...

“The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it, he puts it ...

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.” - Victor Hugo The photograph above by David Seymour moves me and makes me quietly introspecti...

“ Marriage (noun): The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.” - Ambrose...

“True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.” - Charles C...

“I love the language, that soft bastard Latin, Which melts like kisses from a female mouth, And sounds as if it should be writ on satin With...

“Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.” - Rudyard Kipling I am very mu...

“Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious? Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.” - Horace I was in Sydney for th...

“Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats; He keeps all his customers still in arrears B...

“The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find in it our pleasure.” - Françoise de Motteville I was in Adelaide for wo...

“A rattlesnake, if cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against othe...

“Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room...

“And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal awa...

“The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of th...

“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” - Eartha Kitt Are you a person who multi-tasks? Typically, it is said, wome...

“Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle.” - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Mining the archives of old notebooks, I...

“Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.” - Saint Basil A stor...

“You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old ...