Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

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.

She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.

Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms.

If perfection is absurd, why is tragedy common?

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

Lying to the Left is like water to fish

A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid situations which require the use of his superior skill.

What makes me say "wow" continually changes. It changes based on what I know.

I've seen the film. And I'll tell you this, I'm glad Chuck Yeager isn't running for President.