It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

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.

Destiny reveals itself only when there is truth and action.

People love the facade of a perfection relationship because perfection seems alluring. What they don’t realize is perfection is terrifying.

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

It's never to late to do nothing at all.

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.

You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

You meet someone, you care for them, and you fall in love; it's what it is.