The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

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.

Dare to make wishes. The fulfillment of your wishes is possible.

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

Sometimes, she reflected, she dressed for courage, sometimes for success, and sometimes for the consolation of knowing that whatever else went wrong, at least she liked her clothes.

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

I get stoned, I can't get home, I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone. My head is achin', my back is breakin', feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

My view of the internet is that it is way overrated in what it’s done to date but considerably underrated in what it will do.