Life is so unlike theory.

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.

The boy with the haunted eyes was Dory's secret. Eli. And she knew that she had to see him again.

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.

You plus nothing equals everything.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective