Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

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.

Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?

Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

The West in its modern form since 1945 is a miracle, and that's in our American interests. It's its good that the West is strong and at peace, and we should want more of that, not less.

I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.

Dogs are the only mammals that will actually stare and look into a human’s eyes.

My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New English puritanical tradition.

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.

Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.