Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.

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.

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way.

There's no point in clinging to illusions.

The bow always strung ... will not do.

I like girls that are down to earth, just like to have fun, and be themselves.

I remember at the premiere of my second movie I started crying. I thought, I'm so bad that I either have to stop this and do something else or learn what I'm doing.

If you've got it, wear it.

Grumbling is the death of love

There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.

Our Mother Mary is full of beauty because she is full of grace.