Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability.

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 must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being concious of living.

To know another person is to Know How to live and work with her. To know another person in a moral sense is to Know How to respect her... Respect must show in action.

Honor sets all the parts of the body politic in motion, and by its very action connects them; thus each individual advances the public good, while he only thinks of promoting his own interest.

No mortal eye has ever fully seen a flash of lightning ... for no matter how firmly we look, our eyes are sure to be dazzled.

I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.

I would send back a statement: ‘None.’

The care of rivers is not a question of rivers but of the human heart.

One of the most crippling things we can do to ourselves is expect someone else to make us happy

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

I love Apocalypse Now because it's a war movie, but yet it's not really a movie about war.