Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.

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.

Honestly, if you're looking for love and you're not too choosy, hang around a hardware store fingering screws.

It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer even history.

If you haven’t thought about quitting even once when working on your business, that business is not your real passion.

There's no saving him from his deep hole. There's no saving me from my black slug.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.

You're as good as anyone else is, if you're good. You're no less important than anyone else is in the grand scope of things.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

One question you never want to ask God is, 'What's wrong with me - because He'll tell you.

Guy Pearce played Mike in 'Neighbors'. I would fake illness to stay off school and watch the one P.M. show, and I would also watch it again when it was repeated at 5:25 P.M. Obsessed.