Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it.

It's easy to focus on the things that divide us. Sometimes too easy.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

My contention is, all kids have tremendous talents. And we squander them, pretty ruthlessly.

Foxy girls know that silence may be golden-but only for four seconds. Anything longer and you're heading for Awkward Avenue.

I think Donald Trump is truly a populist.

Naval dominance of European waters was the largest, longest, most complex and expensive project ever undertaken by the British state and society.

People value honesty. They value integrity. They value competence and courage and all those kinds of things.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.