A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.

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.

Once you have seen his face you will forever long to see it again.

We were playing a game against an unknown and unforgiving opponent. The stakes were terrible—play well or die—but we didn’t even know the ground rules.

Once exposed, a secret loses all its power.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

I think back when I was kind of a crappy writer, I really did know my time was better spent working and having adventures and seeing the world.

The so-called "remake" is simply a commercial formulation of a much deeper exchange which accounts for the way cinema is what it is.

Chicago keeps getting all these complete games. Im expecting 50 cent hot dogs.

I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.

Oh, insomnia! Ah, well, I know a good cure for it... Get plenty of sleep.

The universe is a space bigger than all of us we are part of.