The longest day is soon ended.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

Catholics are frequently criticised because of the prominence and respect given to the Virgin Mary while simultaneously condemned for not giving enough prominence and respect to women.

I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

The real fabric of American society is not all those flags you see on people's cars...it's in the Bill of Rights and in our constitutional form of government.

I grew up an athlete. Track and field and dance. In track, I actually went to the Junior Olympics. I've always been very athletic.

Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?

There is no medicine like hope.

Come not between the dragon and his wrath.