Deviation from Nature is deviation from happiness.

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.

If she were gone I would be nothing. You should think better of yourself than to settle for that.

Woman's virtue is man's greatest invention.

There is nothing more romantic than absolute presence.

The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.

When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take them up on holding the bucket.

In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.

I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.

That woman is happiest whose life is passed in the shadow of a manly, loving heart.