There are some points on which no man can be contented to follow the advice of another - some subjects on which a man can consult his own conscience only.

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.

Nobody dies in Vain (1408 - Film).

Matrimony - the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.

Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.

Attitude determines how well you do it.

Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.

The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.

It may cost me twenty thousand francs; but for twenty thousand francs, I will have the right to rail against the iniquity of humanity, and to devote to it my eternal hatred.