In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

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 don't pay any attention to what the Baltimore Sun editorial page says about anything.

I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

The worldview of the Left is a battle between rich and poor

On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile.

You don't have to be foreign policy expert to succeed as president, but you have to have ice water for blood.

If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!

I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

Good design doesn't cost, but it pays.

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.