No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

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.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch's quotes, which have a quite serious political pushback. I think he's really amazing.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

If I had wings, no one would ask me: should I fly?

If we couldn't dream, our lives wouldn't mean anything anymore.

Problems can only exist if they have your attention.

Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.

If you need a miracle, be a miracle.

Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious.

... it is as true in morals as in physics that all force is imperishable; therefore the consequences of a human action never cease.