Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

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.

Beware of will power. It damages your giving-up skills.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

Marriage is not a word; it is a sentence.

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

By furnishing this already crowded world with a duplicate one of images, photography makes us feel that the world is more available than it really is.

Old is man when he is born and young, young ever after.

Everything fails, all the time.