Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

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.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

History remembers most what you did last.

I have to be sure of myself - in a conditional way, always being open to the possibility that I'm wrong.

I allow myself to be guided by the work which is in the process of being born. I have confidence in it. I do not think about it.

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.

Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide.

Faith today is not enough for tomorrow. It must be constantly renewed by a conscious act.

Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.

Our country today is at a stage in our foreign policy similar to that crucial point in our nation's early history when our Constitution was produced in Philadelphia.