The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers.

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.

We need no language to laugh

Being a writer brings out a sassy woman inside me, and I love her so.

Transformation rarely happens accidentally.

The first move was to turn to the one great, perfectly visible and certified revolution in the recent history of the human race [the Google search-engine].

Recognizing what we have done in the past is a recognition of ourselves. By conducting a dialogue with our past we are searching how to go forward.

And the world so hard to understand is the world you can't live without.

I look at my reflection in the mirror and I see a girl who desperately wants to forgive a boy, but not without a hell of a lot of grovelling first.

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

I would really love to go on an archaeological dig.

She’s my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra)