What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

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.

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.

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

Gus leaned back in his chair, appearing satisfied."Good, " he said. "Cause Maggie's all the nightmare I can take."I smiled. "Gus, I never knew you dreamed of me." He gave me a one-fingered salute

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop and tune in.

In some instances, alimony has become akin to a social-welfare program provided by working women to their ex-husbands.

You don't want to be hard to look at. Plain very good, hard to look at bad. The plain shall inherit the earth; time is our friend.

It is about your outlook towards life. You can either regret or rejoice.

Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.

Ronald Reagan fought for America. He loved America. He feared where the left, based on history, wanted to take the country.