Many receive advice only the wise profit by it.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Pardon one offence, and you encourage the commission of many.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

Tears gratify a savage nature, they do not melt it.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

It matters not what you are thought to be, but what you are.

A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.

A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.

You’ll never have a 16-team playoff in college football. The most that could happen would be four teams in the next century. But after that, I’m dead, so who cares?

The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings.

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

I am committed to protecting our country against the threat of terrorism.

The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

Mycelium is Earth's natural Internet.

The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.

All is well ended, if the suit be won.