That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

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.

Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle

I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.

If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

The scene isn't one of perpetual death but of life circulating within itself.

I believe in the Creator. I don't believe the creator is God. If you change G-O-D the other way, it becomes dog.

I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.

I would be quite happy to see the Northern Alliance steam across northern Afghanistan and take Kabul.

I'm awkward around girls.

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.