Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.

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 had a dream I named my boat after you. I love to raise your mast.

One should be able to have the man one loves.

Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.

True beauty is a beautiful character shinning through.

Sometimes I live so much in my mind that I forget what is right before my eyes.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.

I think people who do comedy tend to do it well, and to do it painfully and truthfully. So making the leap to drama is easier for them because everything they've done is from pain anyway.

You can prevent your opponent from defeating you through defense, but you cannot defeat him without taking the offensive.

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.