An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

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.

The workings of the male mind are twisted indeed." Winnifred Crane

Boys don’t cry—or at least that’s what everybody’s supposed to believe.

You can change a person in their exterior aspects, but the soul remains, it still is there, and especially if that person has been changed involuntarily.

Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.

The sea is selective, slow at recognition of effort and aptitude but fast in sinking the unfit.

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

After a lifetime of silence, it is difficult then to speak.

Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.

Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

I'm not perfect, but I'm the truth.