In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

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.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong

Life is the game that must be played

But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.

Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard.

Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction.

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

Forecasting is very difficult, especially when it involves the future.