These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

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.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

The only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.

And I am revealed for exactly what I am - a particularly stupid fish, moving from hook to hook, never learning my lesson.

Good artists are always crazy, one way or another.

I'm not bitter at all. I think my memories in Denver are great.

I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable as any of the four majors are today, given some changes.

I mean, the great thing about being an actor is you can investigate parts of your brain that might have otherwise gone dormant.

You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.

So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.

This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.