I believe journalism is coming to be regarded as quite a respectable occupation for gentlemen nowadays.

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.

While toxic food is bad for your health and well-being, so are negative and unethical people.

Life is a book. Read it.

It’s on the path of simplicity that love prefers to walk.

I never wanted to be famous.

Why let one high C ruin your whole evening?

You'd hear Willie Nelson, then Earth, Wind & Fire, then Chicago, then Billy Joel on the same radio station. Nowadays, everything is compartmentalized.

They keep telling me don't save you. If I ignore all that advice and something isn't right then who will I complain to?

If't were not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.

No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?