By doubting we come at truth.

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.

God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.

A leader who is through learning is through.

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

Everyone in my family is a hero to me.

Where the mind goes energy flows.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.

The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

We're not lawbreakers, we're law-abiding, and intend to stay that way.