Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

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.

A living dog is better than a dead lion

I had a dream that boys would act like men for once…then I woke up.

You may want to change the place or the direction of the Moon or you may do something more practical: You accept the Moon as it is!

How is it Lord that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?

War and marketing have many similarities.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

Arranged Marriages don't always have to be risky. Get to know your future in-laws. She's bound to be like one of them.