Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of your sight. Open your eyes to see more clearly.

They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

More Medals of Honor were given for the indiscriminate slaughter of women and children than for any battle in World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan.

The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.

One advantage to having a kid on the spectrum: they tend to be rule followers. Socially, things are harder for them than most kids.

We are not at war with the Afghani people, and we are not at war with Islam, which most Americans respect as a religion of peace.

We are more powerful, more knowledgeable, better prepared than we think we ever are.

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.