It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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.

Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.

Life is all of failures with a limited amount of success

Sometimes to move forward, you have to find yourself backwards.

Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.

You have to become a master or mistress of your mind.

There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.

I think I have a good head on my shoulders.

Der Mensch ist, was er isst. Man is what he eats.

A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.