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.

It's a shame to be the face of chess and to play chess badly.

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

An ideal's love-fraught, imperious call That bides the spheres become articulate.

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

I love to find new people. It's not for the sake of their being new; it's because if you find someone who perfectly fits a part, that's such a great thing.

Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life.

In the construction of a country, it is not the practical workers but the idealists and planners that are difficult to find.