All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.

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.

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.

The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past.

A Resilient Person do not need of good fortune.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up. ~Pearl Buck

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!

I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

Public-Private Partnership in financing, service delivery and provision of workspaces and training of trainers must be promoted to meet the demand and supply gap in the field of skill development.

You can't always do exactly what you want, and often compromises have to be made.

The general trend in the last 4,000 years is that carbon dioxide and temperature have been moving against each other.