Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

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.

Where are you?" I wheeze into the floor. "Where did you go?

I am interested in physical medicine because my father was. I am interested in medical research because I believe in it. I am interested in arthritis because I have it.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.

I like orange and blue together, but I would never wear them.

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.

I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood.

Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.