Kindness is produced by kindness.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Don't you realize, " Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

A sage is a library whose bookshelves are in his soul.

Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step? Sometimes it felt that way.

And you would have lost. We were surrounded. He threatened your life, and he would have made good on that threat. He had you, and that meant he had me, too.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

Koko B. Ware … his mom’s first name was Tupper.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.