What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

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.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.

The sign of an advanced spiritual person is that they don't think they're an advanced spiritual person until after liberation.

Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India.

My dad is this very sensible guy who never let me feel that anything was beyond my station.

When you're younger, you don't believe in it, but it's really so important to stay out the of sun as much as you can. Like if you wanna get tan, you can get a spray tan and not get skin cancer.

I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs, I honestly do. Every man starts barking sooner or later.

I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?

Life is short and often stingy; feast the heart with what it craves, short of cruelty, and let the world wonder.

Lady, right now you could tell me to throw myself under a bus to make you happy, and I’d oblige you. (Xypher)