Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

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.

Alcohol makes the nobleman into a feeble man.

The wife of a careless man is almost a widow.

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

Courage comes from acting courageously on a day-to-day basis.

If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead.

We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: ‘Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.’