In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.

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.

Sleep like you can never be deadDream as if you have a soul inside your head

I don’t need to sow any damn oats. What are you two, the supernatural version of Thelma and Louise?” “Hardly, ” Talia scoffed. “This car is a classic. No way would I drive it off a cliff.

Chance is life's only certainty.

A healer is someone who seeks to be the light that she wishes she had in her darkest moments.

When you say the word marketing, do you think of serving? Until you do, you’re going to live far below your highest potential.

If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

No person learned the art of archery from me, who did not in the end make me his target.