To buried merit rise the tardy bust.

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.

It is the spirit of the poets that gives the soldiers strength to fight.

In all fairness, darlin’, I should probably warn you that this ain’t my first rodeo.

Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.

I just like to sing for people who have lost love.

Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

It's kind of part of human nature to want to know the truth or want to be in on the secret. For stories that focus in on that - like whodunits - it's easy to get drawn into.

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.