Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

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.

No matter how much money we have or make, we will probably never consider ourselves rich. The biggest challenge facing rich people is that they've lost they're ability to recognize that they're rich.

Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

You must use the hook of precepts to quickly remove it.

Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

I think the greatest lesson I have just recently learned is how powerful the mind is, informing our decision making unknowingly.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of.