Example is always more efficacious than precept.

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.

Everything negative, useless, and redundant must go.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

Very few things in life matter.

If I'm not touring I'd just be at home, just driving - I'm kind of at a loss for how that stuff works.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

I must admit I’m impressed, Sadie. You controlled your magic and controlled Isis. And you, Carter, did well turning into a lizard.

As long as a man lives he should study. Death alone has the right to dismiss the school.

Most men are not that evolved.

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.