Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

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.

Be true, unbeliever.

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

A little while, their hunger unfulfilled, The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.("Ephemera")

So I take my lover, my king, and I put him in a pedestal and I cut him down. A man, like the ones who ruined the world.

I am truly my mother's son.

Have a vision but hold it lightly, wear it like a loose garment.

It is the unforeseeable that creates the event.

Earn your leadership every day.

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

And we live in a kind of realm of language and words and so forth. So we can sort of relate to them. They don't exist without us. We create words.