Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

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.

If you pour more water into a river, it will not drown the fish.

I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Nobody has been held accountable for the Bytyqi murders. Those in command of the camp and the forces operating there have never been charged.

The gods, the immortals, were the inventors of death and corruption; yet with one or two notable exceptions they have lacked the courage to try their invention out on themselves.

Nothing is ever going to describe in words what your mother looked like at twenty when the moonlight just fell on her face in such a way. Only a picture can show you that.

Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there.

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.