A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

If you think happiness is a rare bird you won't see much of it.

We can tell a lot about a woman from her books.

There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine

As long as your life is a succession of love stories, you can never grow old.

you remind me of someone i knew. looked just like you but kind.

A prophet is not without honour save in his own country and in his own house.

Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

Violence is good for those who have nothing to lose.

The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.