Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

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.

All changes are positive, just look in the bright side, always and you find the pearl that lies beneath in the sand and a sunny way is there ahead for you!:)

Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.

You run out of new ideas? Then you run out of your progression!

Meeting a dragon is like falling in love. Even though you have never experienced it before, you will know when it has happened.

What did I do to deserve this?

Now [Mike] Gove has destroyed Boris Johnson.

I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either.

She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all .

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.