In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence.

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.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

I want you to move in with me, man.""Nah. I appreciate it, but I need to get a place of my own. I'm a grownup.

It can be a beautiful experience to look for the magic that is hidden within the realm of our lives

People are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

I knew you had to go in and audition and maybe they'd hire you, and that's where you start. I had a good understanding about press: that it's the actor's responsibility to publicize his or her films.

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

I received my training at an art academy, so what I produce is art. That's what is artistic about my photographs.

Precisely because white denial has long trumped claims of racism, people of color tend to underreport their experiences with racial bias rather than exaggerate them.