We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

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.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.

No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.

By the way, Santa just is white.

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.