Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

The best way to prove the clearness of our mind, is by showing its faults; as when a stream discovers the dirt at the bottom, it convinces us of the transparency and purity of the water.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.

The world isn't what you think it is.

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

I'm not afraid to fail. I'm afraid to be mediocre.

I would say that foreign policy is a place where intelligence, resolve, clarity, and confidence in cause, is of extraordinary importance.

We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together.

Normally I'm not like a big TV person. I never use my DVR.

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.