There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal.

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.

Every war carries within it the seeds of the next.

And Castle nodded sagely. 'So this is a picture of the meaninglessness of it all! I couldn't agree

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

There is nothing like practice.

Fashion is a very particular world, as you know.

I'm here. You're safe now. It's okay to remember. They can never hurt you again.

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

It's our job to first make ourselves feel better and then make ourselves feel good.

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.