Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

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 loved her not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons.

Suffocation is a cruel way to go.

It depends on you whether you want wrinkles or dimples on your face.

Praises of the unworthy are felt by ardent minds as robberies of the deserving.

Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.

When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer, for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures and singing along, and that part's wonderful.

San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell.

Not violence, nor untruth but non-violence and Truth are the laws of our being.

'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it.

The old prose writers wrote as if they were speaking to an audience; while, among us, prose is invariably written for the eye alone.