I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world.

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.

We learn from education, experience and people.

It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.

Do not allow your enemy to define you. Because if you allow yourself to be defined negatively, nothing positive you say about yourself will register.

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, sleep, and dream baseball.

That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate.

The Ideal is the invisible Sun which is always on the meridian of the soul.