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.

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.

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.

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

Thanksgiving for God’s faithfulness in our pain is the indisputable proof that we believe God is a part of our pain.

The race for excellence has no finish line.

Once conform once do what others do because they do it and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.

It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.

Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.

I have never seen happier people than those who have repented.

You become what you behold.