I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

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.

It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.

I'm really excited that I'm able to work again.

Art is the most benign cultural practice, and yet art has an upper bound of personal revelation that is so far away it is basically a horizon.

I have a rich, full, textured life.

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

Whether it's playing catch or going to the weight room, you've just got to blend in and introduce yourself as you go along.