In civilized society we all depend upon each other, and our happiness is very much owing to the good opinion of mankind.

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.

Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly.

Marry the person who makes you feel like you can face life together. Because that's what it's about. It's about facing life together.

And what is gossip anyway?Just fragments of sad accounts, maneuvered and mutilated year after year for our sinful pleasure.

Unfortunately, just like bullets, you can never get words back once they have been sent out into the world.

The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries.

You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.