Poverty has, in large cities, very different appearances; it is often concealed in splendour, and often in extravagance.

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.

Fear the lion, fear the crocodile, but fear most the one that puts on the inevitable wear called the human flesh.

Egoism devours all the energy, and in addition it makes one suffer.

A great book is one, which really don’t finish when it finishes.

The fact that the ministerial conspiracy against liberty had risen from corruption was of the utmost importance to the colonists.

Did you ever think that in a past life Alec was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do.

The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.

David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.

If you kiss a woman's mind, her body will follow.

When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.