Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

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.

Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and it’s no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Be bold, be courageous, be your best.

...there are days when I feel I can do anything and days when I feel I can do nothing. But fortunately for those around me, neither sort occurs very often.

Faith of the bore: everything is worth saying.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured.

One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.

The fights I've learned the most were always the fights I lost.