Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

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.

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.

For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.

He in his madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace

When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.

I look forward to proving something to myself and others.

I never feel like I conquered the day and did everything I possibly should have, could have, would have.

The Pentagon's lost entire countries.

You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.

A Good artist has less time than ideas.

I look at someone like Giggsy and he is an inspiration to all of us.