Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

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.

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.

The confidence essential to effective habit-making comes as a rule from knowledge of previous and related successes.

I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much

Staying aloof from what's keeping you away from Him is not works.

For the world of football, Messi is a treasure because he is role model for children around the world.

A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.

It would be possible to optimize some forms of goto, but I haven't bothered.

The one thing that will be the bane of my existence with my kid will probably be the way he or she is most like me in some ways.

France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.