He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

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.

I have two children, and they know that I never pass up a piece of cake, ever.

Without a goal analytics is aimless and worthless.

We can not run away from our youth. We have to put them in the lead

The basic agreement between human beings, indeed what makes them human and makes them social, is language.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.

So I kiss him, and there is the great dark sea ahead.

No matter how you play the golf course, no matter how well you play, you're going to have to make 6 and 8 footers for par. It's just a given here.

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.