Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

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.

Reputation is what others perceive you as being, and their opinion may be right or wrong. Character, however, is what you really are, and nobody knows that but you.

To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us.

To paraphrase Shakespeare’s Polonius, you sometimes have to get your hands a little dirty to set things straight.

Flops are a part of life's menu and Eve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.

Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.

Puerto Rico lacks resources, but that's not the fault of the U.S.

Average people look forward to "getting off." Successful people look forward to "getting on."

I'll sign anything except bad legislation.

Your responsibility as an artist is to experiment.

The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.