A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

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.

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.

Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Ireland need fresh impotence.

It was an addiction. A pointless, self-destructive addiction. But really, is there any other kind?

The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you stay relevant?