Let your desires be ruled by reason.

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.

Dear Friend, I'm sorry I haven't written to you in a couple of weeks, but I have been trying to 'participate' like Bill said.

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour And gather honey all the day From every opening flower.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.

The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.

As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence.

You are what you do, not what you say.

I could've died because you had to tie your shoelace?

There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

I'd hate to see you get cancer, but that's your problem, not mine.