For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance.

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.

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Greater love hath no man then this, that a man lay down his life for his friends

Even Hazel had stopped telling Neylan that wearing dragons was inappropriate.

So face with calm that heritage And earn contempt before the age.

It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.

Actually, I do like pink clothes, but it's not because I'm girly, it's because I'm the reincarnation of Oscar Wilde.