Men who cannot deceive others are very often successful at deceiving themselves.

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.

Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

You should be happy because I was certain (predictable) with u, rest of the world named me VOLCANO.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation.

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.

I honestly really don't get aggravated at all. I just go with the flow. Whatever happens, happens.

Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.

Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.