Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

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 sing, not because I'm happy, but because I'm in love with the world.

Don´t let egos get in the way to ruin your day. If someone holds their inflated ego, blow it away!

The lack of self-love has conditioned many to love those who inflict emotional pain on them, while hurting the ones who bring them the most joy.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

mine, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.

There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.

I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.

Everybody knows worse of himself than he knows of other men.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.