No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

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.

These days people are much more aware that mathematics is a communal endeavor: even the most brilliant idea gets meaning only from its relation to the whole.

For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.

He who walks alone, waits for no-one.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

I make a special point of working on Thanksgiving Day. I have friends I go out with but I even make it plain to them. The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

He saved the world, but he shattered mine.

The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.

I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."