Of all hatreds that the world produces, a wife's hatred for her husband, when she does hate him, is the strongest.

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.

When we pray, we bring G-d into the world

I always follow the rules. No fake co-productions. I know how to make content agreeable and acceptable.

We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.

And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.

Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

We started by asking what’s wrong with the world, and we ended up discovering what’s right with it.

I have been doing this for eight years now so the negative things do not effect me as much as they did at the beginning.

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground.