Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

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.

She looked at me like I was stupid, the same look the girls in JC used to give me when I hadn’t heard of the latest boy band, or turned up at Zouk wearing unfashionable clothes.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

he was still my romantic hero and I was still his living dream

Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.

My greatest accomplishment so far is to keep selling enough that I never want for the labor that sustains my Presbyterian soul.

Wonder what customers really want? Ask. Don't Tell.

I am a socialist in ideology, a capitalist in methodology.

Moments of compassion are the most holy moments of life.

You feel your game's raised by working with the best people.

We are what the past has made us. We are what the future will make us. Live now. Right now.