It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

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.

Love rekindles lose hope

A pastor without anointing is just a religious professor

The best gift that you can give to your favourite person is to lead him or her to God.

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us.

A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops.

To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.

It ain't about who ya love, it's all about do ya love.

The first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make, provided that the machine is docile enough to tell us how to keep it under control.