The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

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 takes a great woman to respect the little man in her child, and the little child in her man.

What do you call falling when the world is standing upside down?

The family is the essential presence, the thing that never leaves you, even if you find you have to leave it.

War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

The book you don't read won't help.

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own.

I know that truly nothing is for sure.

I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen

We are not only warming the ocean and the planet as a whole, but we are also acidifying the ocean and changing its chemistry.