Wise married women don't trouble themselves about infidelity in their husbands.

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.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

The world is a wheel always turning.

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

When he died he would not end. The world would end.

Christians think a long record of church attendence and Bible reading is equivalent to an advanced degree in science.

There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. To-day it is for thee; tomorrow it is against thee. It arms the eyes of the envious every where. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.