We may have uneasy feelings for seeing a creature in distress without pity; for we have not pity unless we wish to relieve them.

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.

To act as though we have hope is to keep hope alive

I'd rather be the cool aunt than the authoritative aunt.

The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

I don't want to say [the teams] are mirror images of each other, ... but there's a lot of similarities on both sides of the ball.

I am a bit odd. I am somewhat evangelical. But I am not crazy.

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

You will go to the paper towns and never come back.

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

Everything that we've ever done has led up to this moment, so I presume there's a certain intricacy in that.

I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail.