Nature has granted the use of life like a loan, without fixing any day for repayment.

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.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

Some people are afraid to dress in ways that they actually like because it might be different than what most people expect or how others dress.

How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.

The girl has to be, you know, "the man," who is going to take care of everybody.

If one discards the Bible as being unreliable, then he must discard almost all literature of antiquity.

I don't know whether I am different from other people. Perhaps I am. Perhaps no one has a personality, and people are inventing themselves in the context in which they find themselves.

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.

The United States were a 35-year-old man, I think he'd be in a mental institution. Violent tendencies - delusions of grandeur - medicate heavily.