Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

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.

Think that day lost whose descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done.

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.

Recovery is about making room for the real me to exist.

A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the sails, and imagination the rudder.

God made us to consume food. He did not make food to consume us.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

When men no longer have the least fear of saying something untrue, they very soon have no fear whatsoever of doing something unjust.