Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.

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.

No one could make you feel inferior without you already believing that you are.

Your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between sweeter than any wine and as bitter as mustard greens.

Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.

Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.

Italian football is great but for me, for the style of player I am, I found it too tactical, too slow.

Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and find some stuff to love.

Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway.

Meditation is not about doing something

Three years ago we said you'd have to think long and hard about hiring a recruiter with less than a couple of hundred LinkedIn connections. Now the same holds true for candidates in general.

Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.