It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

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.

Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone.Strange that a harp of thousand stringsShould keep in tune so long.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

Attitude might be worth 80 percent of any athlete’s makeup.

The key to not getting rejected if you're writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything about them before you ever make a submission.

If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.

Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation's capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.

The next time you see Jesus Christ, ask Him what happened to the just society He promised 2,000 years ago.

To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

Lust hath these three companions: the first, blindness of understanding; the second, hardness of heart; the third, want of grace.

Light attracts light. But sometimes your light attracts moths and your warmth attracts parasites. Protect your space and energy