Nature never gives everything at once.

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.

If you are unhappy about something change it.Choose what you want in life, create your plan to get it, put your plan into action and follow through with persistence.

He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron".

Christy isn’t a case, he’s a person.

To me, part of the beauty of a comma is that it offers a rest, like one in music: a break that gives the whole piece of music greater shape, deeper harmony. It allows us to catch our breath.

I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.

Everyone deserves to have someone who loves them.

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.