When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.

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.

El que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho.

Sometimes you can be so deeply wrapped up in a person that the only way to deal with it is to use cruelty to push them away.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.

Let us look ahead as little as possible, keeping our eyes on … the world of beauty around us.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.

If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.