Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

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.

We don't know Where God is, Who God is or What God is… BUT GOD IS!

I didn’t think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

The danger is different from the fear. ... [practice] what to do if things go wrong, as well as right.

After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith.

I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.

Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.

The honest man, though e'er sae poor, Is king o' men, for a' that!

I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?