All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

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.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree if you agree with him he's a statesman.

He is very fond of making things which he does not want, and then giving them to people who have no use for them.

With wealth, I can do pretty much what I want. But you've got to provide a good example because you have a lot of people that look up to you now.

I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.

Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.

God's relation to spirits is not like that of a craftsman to his work, but also like that of a prince to his subjects.

People need to see what's going on, and they have to be exposed to the mechanisms that can help make it right.

Of the many qualities I adore about Melissa McCarthy as a comedian and as a dramatic actor, the best is how fully she gives herself to every character she plays.