Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

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.

Isn't corn like a meat or something?

At the end, I realise I was the only who always walked on the people, for nothing but betterment, and I got no regrets.

Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.

In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.

Value them; they are pearls of great price

Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the one with the most attractive exterior will win.

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.