Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.

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 knowledge is power, let's spread it as widely as possible and dilute it to deny those who would abuse it.

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.

I've learned in my older age how to let it go when things don't work out, because something incredible that I don't know about yet is probably right around the corner.

If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!

We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him. "So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back.

Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

Well I've got lots more great TV projects in the pipeline.

I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy.

There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.