Employment and hardships prevent melancholy.

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.

The minute your group gets so big you don't know anybody in it and they don't know you, there's hell to pay.

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera.The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

I like to hike and cook. I enjoy furniture and design - not making it, just looking at it. I'm always kind of trying to spread my interests around and try new things.

Prosperity is the fruit of labor. It begins with saving money.

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.

That seems to be the way of things. Everyone takes, everyone gives. Life is like that.

I really love being a character actor.

The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.

She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them