I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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.

You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.'We can't both be Alexander.'Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

I love all life as my own. Therefore, I say, you're my very own. But am I, an infidel who does not believe in your ism, also your own?

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is a dissatisfaction with self.

True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't.

Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.

Those who don't manage their money will always work for those who do

I always live in the present. I never dream about what might happen. Why? It might not.

Hostility to youth is the worst vice of the middle-aged.

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you.