Occupation alone is happiness.

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.

Vow to always persevere through your struggles, challenges, and obstacles until you arrive at the rewarding end of them.

We can only go to the limits of ourselves. Anything more and we give too much away. Then we're not good for anyone.

Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design.

Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes.

I've been feeling everything. From hate to love. From love to lust. From lust to truth. I guess that's how I know you.

You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.

Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly.

You have to be very careful when you're working on a sequel, because it has to be a continuation of what you did before.

Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital.

You can think whatever you want, do whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.