Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors.

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.

Marriage is a great institution but I'm not ready for an institution.

I'm probably going to be the scruffiest Chief Scout you've ever had and my health and safety policy is non-existent.

I sat with my two best friends, knowing beyond a shadow of a doubt that only two of us would make it out of there alive. Though I did tend to exaggerate.

We the voters demand the right to be in charge here, to be informed, to be empowered.

I think the world that I grew up in was like being in this sort of magical artistic garden.

In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate.

The mass are animal, in pupilage, and near chimpanzee.

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.