I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

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.

When you come to God, the devil will remind you about the pleasures of sin

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is caught in New England and made a Unitarian minister of?

Right... is the child of law.

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.

If your advertising goes unnoticed, everything else is academic!