Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

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.

People who live on the devil’s territory are automatically under his power

This connection we have isn't going away, it's only getting stronger. Because the more I spend time with her, the closer I want to be.

Frog has no nerves. Frog is as old as a cockroach. Frog is my father's genitals. Frog is a malformed doorknob. Frog is a soft bag of green.

At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

What is will? It is a decision. It is a decision to be something. We really aren't anything in particular. We can be anything. That's the good news.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

I don't intend to kind of like wind down and get decrepit. I have a challenge to keep myself going. To eat right. To exercise.

My weight is something that people seem to talk about a lot.

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.