Wasting a fortune is evaporation by a thousand imperceptible means.

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.

Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.

Sooner or later, the future always circles back to the past.

His smile is too beautiful for this world, and I am dying of love.

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

Every experience we have is necessary and perfect. In other words, everything is Perfect.

Tens of thousands of men and women with kids to raise, bills to pay, and dreams that won't die. This is your campaign.

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.