No other American city is so intensely American as New York.

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.

Without the energy that lifts mountains, how am I to live?

The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

Les faits ne parlent pas. Facts do not speak.

Is this love, baby, or is this just confusion?

Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.

If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...

The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act

One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.