If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.

Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order toderive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishesinto debt that endures, debt that does not rot, costs nothing to maintain,and brings in perennial interest.

We inherited a strong and flourishing country, and instead of making the investments - that is, the sacrifices - to maintain it, we chose to suck it dry and stick our children with the bill. If you want to see who is to blame for student debt, just look in the mirror. And if parents find themselves supporting kids beyond their college years, that is only, in the aggregate, a form of compensatory justice: the intergenerational transfer of wealth that should have been effected through taxation.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.