For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

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.

Advising gives a great illusion of superiority

If two people are destined to be together, they will bump to each other and fall in love in the RIGHT PLACE and in the RIGHT time.

Today I want to leave the worldI want to leave the painLeave the heartacheI know where it is goingI want to see my Savior

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

Intention without action is useless.

I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

If there's no one in your life to love right now, love yourself. A large part of the path of love is learning to love yourself.

Success often lies just the other side of failure.

What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.