Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

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.

That story, as all good stories, planted a seed in my soul and never left me.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces sleep.

[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.

I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.

You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.

Established in Being, perform action.

Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.

There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two-state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighboring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.

If a job's worth doing, it's too hard.