It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

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.

Never be in a hurry to condemn a friend

If you have faith in the public sector, as I do, you must be the harshest critic of corruption, waste and fraud in government.

I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

Personally i prefer the MX RR and a stylized name, but i was trying to solve the problem rather than create an industry.

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.

At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

No matter whether you are a physician, a teacher, or a clergyman, if you can give increase of life to others and make them sensible of that fact, they will be attracted to you, and you will get rich.