The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided generally by the science of sparing.

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.

and this passion, like bad kerosene, barely burns.

Your purpose is why you you're living, your vision is how you're going to execute it.

First LEARN...thenremove the 'L

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

But as far as true goodness was concerned, that didn't exist - not in the land of cowardly men.

I can do more good outside of prison... This country is worth dying for.

There are times when I get through the day by looking around the office and thinking, 'My God, aren't the natives here strange.'

And at points in the movie, John Cena is actually impervious to bullets!

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

I don't wanna gain the whole world and lose my soul.