Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

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.

Success-minded people must understand that we cannot arrive at our destination the same as we left. Just as things will be different, you too must be different.

Bugs Bunny - the perfect employee. Never absent. Never late. Never changes the script. Doesn't have an agent. Never asks for a percent of the profit. Doesn't ask to have his relatives on the payroll.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.

In order to begin an analysis, there must already be a synthesis present in the mind.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

You cannot learn doctrine well until you follow the doctrine you learn!

Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids.