Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

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.

The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces— those, I think, are the sensations of grief.

One is not required to like a movie in order to learn from it. Our personal views provide a legitimate perspective, as long as we recognize and acknowledge how they may color our interpretation.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Value is coextensive with reality.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

I don't like to fight.

It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists.

Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo.

I would have, had someone not detonated their charges prematurely. (Nykyrian) Yeah, Cruel. You have to watch that premature detonation problem of yours. (Hauk)