Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned

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.

she: Before we got married you told me you were well-off. he: I was and I didn't know it.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.

I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

There's a difference in a player that has a job and a player that doesn't have a job.

If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.

Underneath that rude exterior, you've got a heart of gold.

Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?