A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

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.

I figured it was probably best for me to leave that bicycle back there for a real emergency.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.

If we can continue to win, hopefully they can falter a little down the stretch.

Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.

Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.

In dreams begin responsibilitiy.