No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.

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 believe that thoughts and feelings reside on the same nerve-ending…they are called heartstrings

When you have nothing to offer, love gives abundantly.

Men are willing to keep their evil characters if they can but get rid fo their evil reputations. They are scrupulously studious of appearances.

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

God is clever but not dishonest.

I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.

You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.

I have seen people wanting to devote their time & energy to nation building. All they need is an opportunity. 'MyGov' is that opportunity!

The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.

I look for people who have insight in places where I don't.