Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

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.

I feel younger than eighteen but burdened as a eighty-year-old.

i am not oxytocin but i will try to become, because I am Live In oxytocin Society

I don't identify with anyone historically, but there are several people in the future who I am a dead ringer for.

It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.

If there are nine rabbits on the ground and you want to catch one, just focus on one.

You cannot buy or win happiness. You must choose it.

I thought being on stage was an amazing feeling, but there is nothing that can top watching my wife bring our son into this world.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious reader to decide.