Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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.

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer.

Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

I'm a pretty normal guy. I do one weird thing. I like to go in the women's room for number two. I've been caught several times and I have paid dearly.

He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore.

Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.

A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.

A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect