To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

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.

Iona stared at me for a long time. “You are going to leave me a widow before I have a chance to become a bride.

The best the world has to offer comes from the best you have to give to others.

I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith, and now I'm marrying my Dreams.Soon I will be holding hands with Destiny!

The poor things keep calling in those – those pumbles, I think they're called – you know, the ones who mend pipes and things – " "Plumbers?" " – exactly, yes, but of course they're flummoxed.

You know, I'm a big comedy fan.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

Suddenly it was obvious to me in my analysis I had missed what Fischer had found with the greatest of ease at the board

The man of Love follows the path of God-and shows affection to both the believer and the nonbe-liever.

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.

Baseball is a religion in my classroom. It's a very important part of life, baseball.