The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

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.

You have to be afraid of failure. You have to be terrified

The person seeing perfection is the Master.

The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

All my life I have been happiest when the folks watching me said to each other, 'Look at the poor dope, wilya?

I am more convinced than ever. Conceptual integrity is central to product quality.

As a fiction writer, one of things you learn is God lives in specificity. You know, human kindness is increased as we pursue specificity.

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

We were the victims of the new producer but what annoyed me was they told the press we were leaving before us.

You're as good as anybody.

As much pains were taken to make me idle as were ever taken to make me studious.