By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

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 ignorance of the world often makes people believe that life should be black and white – that you must choose sides – and so the world of colourful gradients goes unadmired.

Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world.

If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?

I said to my girlfriend, you shouldn't eat before you swim. She said, "why not"? I said, you look fat.

As in cooking, living requires that you taste, taste, taste as you go along.

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

Remember that mindsets can not be changed through force and coercion. No idea can ever be forcibly thrust upon any one.

A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.

There is no question we have an access stock.

Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.