Truth allows no choice.

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.

You are as much able as you know

No work you'll ever complete

And you know that when the truth is told that you can get what you want or you can just get old.

Must's a schoolroom in the month of may

Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.

Private imaginings may have no outcomes in the world at all. Creativity does. Being creative involves doing something.

So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.

It's a simple liberating reality - the best things in life are mine for the choosing.