I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

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 nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.

Two times twice now, I have been called arrogant, by the decadent.I'd rather be overly self confident, rather than overly self indulgent.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

When consciousness has no thoughts in it, one can experience spirit and live in harmony with the universal forces.

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?

Music, of course, is what I hear and something that I more or less live by. It's not an occupation or profession, it's a compulsion.

According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.