Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

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.

Just love, just feel the love, longing for love, nothing else matters.

Being crazy, for the rest of us, is a form of sanity.

In the end, after kingdoms and armies had fallen, the religions were still fighting, weren't they?

With such thoughts in your mind, now that you have resolved to love Him and please Him with all your strength, your only fear should be to fear God too much and to place too little confidence in Him.

I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

Do you play football for Pittsburgh? Then why are you such a Steeler?!

You're only a success for the moment that you complete a successful act.

The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

In contrast to the speculators preoccupation with rapid gain, value investors demonstrate their risk aversion by striving to avoid loss.