In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.

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.

Next morning I went over to Paul’s for coffee and told him I had finished. “Good for you, ” he said without looking up. “Start the next one today.

Modernity gone wrong has isolated humanity and made human reason autonomous of (and dismissive toward) revelation.

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool

Humour can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process.

I travel a lot. I'm on the move.

It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

When Michael Jackson sings it is with the voice of angels, and when his feet move, you can see God dancing.

Your past is not your potential.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.