I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

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.

Darkness within clouds the world without.

Nothing conquers the chaos around me like the calm assurance that I am at peace with God.

To lift the authority of the church up is for nations to come to church

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

And now, in the interest of equal time, here is a message from the National

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

My business was born out of my frustration with other cashback schemes. I wanted a more curated service than the other sites offer.

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

I support building a soccer stadium in the District of Columbia, and I support investing public dollars to get it done.

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.