There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow.

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.

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.

The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely.

I developed some unique software to public it on the web that I call the Folklore Project.

I eat as often as I can. I'll eat even if I don't feel like eating.

I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest.

We both have a great loyalty to it, and I think that it's important to give it our best shot.

My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.