There's nothing like going on with a thing.

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.

His leaving had been like snipping off the end of a rope - leaving two unraveling strands.

Success is directly proportional to the degree of realization of the purpose.

Endure every hardship with hope.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

[Lev] Tolstoy is not a boy-writer. He's a grown-up. And [Fedor] Doestoeivski is not a boy-writer.

I can't help what I sound like. What I sound like is what i am. You know? I cannot be anything other that what I am.

Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.