It is no good any longer having any opinion upon 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.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

A friend must not be injured even in jest.

I'm trying to get away from trashing women, to be honest. I think I've done enough of that in my career.

We build in thought the conditions that will later come into manifestation on the physical plane.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Privately run jails are a mark of American "reinvented government" that has been picked up by neoconcervatives in Canada.

Pain is evitable. Suffering is optional.

I probably shouldn't brag, but dag I amaze and astonish.

At the end of the day it's just food, isn't it? Just food.

The most powerful lessons occur where studies intersect with real life.