It is better to suffer wrong than to do 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.

The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others.

The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking.

We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small fires in the darkness.

The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

How you eat is how you live. How you do anything is how you do everything.

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

I would say Politically Incorrect is my favourite right now.

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.