To stumble twice against the same stone is a proverbial disgrace.

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.

He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

I ought to come up there and break your shuck nose.

Whenever I have a bunch of tunes written, I always find a kind of uniform that accompanies the songs.

We were innocent victims. (Angelia) Yeah, and I’m the tooth fairy. (Bride)

Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession.