What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

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.

Courage emerges as you climb over the circumstances that threaten to bury you! But you must be willing to climb to find courage.

All interpretations of history are propaganda for one idea or another.

Man always need discomfort for awaken.

It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.

When you're training for jiu-jitsu, particularly if you're training for a competition, you have to be pretty prescribed in the variety of what you eat.

No woman has ever existed who did not know perfectly well in her heart what to expect from the superiority or inferiority of a rival.

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

It's mandatory in this day and age to be considered to have a sense of humor and to demonstrate it. You're not paying me for a joke, You're paying me for the right joke.

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.