His only fault is that he has no fault.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

The happier time, the quicker it passes

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive of our actions.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.

It's an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I'd be very happy.

My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana.'

John Kerry will undergo surgery to repair his right shoulder. He originally hurt it when he suddenly switched positions on Iraq.

Live today for what is going to matter 10 billion years from today.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

I will try to be non-violent one more day this morning, waking the world away in the violent day.

I am a little god! Critics, be gone!

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Piety--warm, soft, and passive as the ether round the throne of Grace--is made callous and inactive by kneeling too much.