"Keep your breath to cool your porridge"

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy

Source: The Way to Wealth (1758)

The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

Source: Alarms and Discursions, Cheese (1910)

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things

Source: Walden (1854)

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends

Serenity Quote