An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.

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.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

When you knock off work tonight, go looking for Toby, because, trust me, he will be looking for you.

work hard. play hard. be kind.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

Quintilius Varus, Give me back my legions!

A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

When you meet someone for the first time instead of asking them what they do, you should ask them what they've always wanted to do. This conversation will be much more interesting.

You don’t free yourself from duty by running away. That only increases the weight on your shoulders.

Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.