While grief is fresh every attempt to divert it only irritates.

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.

Of all my failures to offset the mortification of wanting, expecting, or caring too much, the most humiliating was having no real answer for the love of a good man. It humbled me.

As my future crumbled before my eyes, I grasped for the rope. My entire life's struggle was ending here, in plain view of my enemies. How was it possible? Had had I let things come to this?

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Non-profits find the very best Who and put them on their Boards because they don't want to pay them.

I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life.

Whatever you think today becomes what you are tomorrow.

Did you ever realize you have more opinions about my life than your own life?

Play with me and you play with fire.

A product is not a product unless it sells. Otherwise it is merely a museum piece.

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.