Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

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.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

I never want to make screw-you money like the rest of the financial services industry.

The mind is a sacred mansion.

Some things were secret even after you told them.

If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.

Like any big company, they've got a brand name, and they've got to keep extending it. Because the reality is, there's not a whole lot of difference between their search (engine) and anyone else's.

So does that mean you're going to fall in love with me again? What makes you think i ever stopped?

I would ask [protesters] to please respect - I'd ask them to please respect the democratic process.