It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

Every country has the government it deserves.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve.

Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.

False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.

What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.

It is not the mediocrity of women's education which makes their weakness; it is their weakness which necessarily causes their mediocrity.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

The happiness of love is in action

Great mysteries inhabit the threshold of my being.

It is not the importance of the thing, but the majesty of the Lawgiver, that is to be the standard of obedience.~Andrew Bonar~

But no man's a hero to himself.

We live in such a special time when literally anything we can think of is possible.

The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing is amply rewarded by public attention.

The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.

I learnt all the words worthy of the court of blood So that I could break the rule I learnt all the words and broke them up To make a single word: Homeland.

The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.

The truth is, narratives of self-justification burble beneath more of our relationships and endeavors than we would care to admit.