Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

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 the journey that matters, soak it in. Learn lessons out of it. Impact positively so that if you never get to your destination, at least you'd leave a legacy to be remembered.

If we don't harness their potential for good, their societies will continue to reap their capacity for evil.

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.

If you can't distinguish people from lap-dogs, you shouldn't undertake philanthropic work.

Spook: No, I'm not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.

Let thy light shine, then, in dark places.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

I ate the Green Monster. It tasted pretty nasty. It was pretty painful.