Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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.

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.

Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.

I'm a great cleaner. I'm actually kind of addicted to cleaning. I could clean anything.

When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage.