The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

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.

What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Valid criticism does you a favor.

Partisanship is not part of my professional makeup.

Gain, acquired by many agents, soon accumulates.

Successful contrarian investing requires us to live with discomfort, for being "wrong" and alone. But bargains do not exist in the absence of fear.

What is left unsaid gets in the way of the relationship. What is left unasked-for is a missed opportunity.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.