You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.

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.

I cannot resist your heart, you are so hard to find, each and every night I’m always thinking of you

Let it go and learn from the process.

So, I poisoned his coffee this morning and watched him drink it.

I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

Fun is where it's at. That's why you have to be there.

Give me an authentic woman, and I'm happy.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

I love women. I always have. I'm not pretending that I understand them, but I just love women. I love being in their presence and I love everything about them.