Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

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 have learned that having a cause to fight for is a noble and rare thing to have. So be fearless and fight.

To seek after beauty as an end is a wild goose chase a will-o'-the-wisp because it is to misunderstand the very nature of beauty which is the normal condition of a thing being as it should be.

I didn't want to see you, but you invaded my world. Every dark corner you found a way in bringing light to the lifeless and lost." Eva

Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.

When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.

If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

Besides, when not hard at work with this research, I'm actually conducting a side experiment on how cigarettes and gin increase charisma. As you might guess, the results are looking very promising.