A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

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.

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows itself to be.

Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.

If you don't have borders, we don't have a country.

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

My whole life Has been a golden dream of love and friendship.

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.

Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

What an illusion Mahamaya has conjured up! Here is this infinite world, and what one claims as his possession will be left behind at death. Still men cannot understand this simple truth.