Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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.

Like Artemis and Orion, fate was working against us, and we couldn't be together in this life. But he will forever be immortalized in my heart.

You still wake up sometimes. You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l.

I can't imagine you not saying a word," said Marcus."I think you'd go crazy first.

Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.

When I took up running, it was like meeting God himself. I have been running ever since.

True worship is obedience to God for no other reason than that you delight in God.

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?

When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness.