This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.—Izaak Walton.
And do as adversaries do in law,—strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.—Shakespeare.
The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.—Brillat Savarin.
Appreciation.—Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than the merit; but posterity will regard the merit rather than the man.—Colton.
It so falls out that what we have we prize not to the worth while we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, why, then we rack the value.—Shakespeare.
A man is known to his dog by the smell—to the tailor by the coat—to his friend by the smile; each of these know him, but how little or how much depends on the dignity of the intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of man is known only to God.—Ruskin.
He who seems not to himself more than he is, is more than he seems.—Goethe.
Light is above us, and color surrounds us; but if we have not light and color in our eyes, we shall not perceive them outside us.—Goethe.
When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.—Joubert.
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.—George Eliot.