That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

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.

A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's daily work.

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

I know how to prepare my head.

If everybody in the world saw a therapist, we would have a better world.

The problem with comparison is that you always feel either better than someone else or worthless compared to someone else.

Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!

Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.