Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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.

We cannot know. But sometimes there is kindness, and sometimes there is love.

She doesn't give directions but there is a pot of gold at the end of her rainbow...Find it. If you can.

what wisdom can build, ignorance can destroy

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

Easy does it, boys. I just need help standing, not flying.

In abortion, the person who is massacred, physically and morally, is the woman.

Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music.