It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.

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.

You, ” he says, before the door closes all the way. “I often dream of you.

The Saviour of the light liberates souls into the light.

Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.

When you hate someone it means you like it.

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.

If you're making art, you are not separate from your brand.

I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.