A fishing-rod was a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Sometimes it feels as though happiness is just a word people say to hide the despair of not knowing anything.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

Birth is violent, whether it be the birth of a child or the birth of an idea.

I leave my circle tight in keep my family close.

If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.