The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.

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.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

God needs loving, accepting, and compassionate people—not accepting of sin, but accepting God’s forgiveness of sin for all who repent.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

Some only learn the value of time when it’s too late!

Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.

The opportunity of a lifetime must be grasped within the lifetime of that opportunity.

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.