Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

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.

May God deliver humankind from power of darkness into the wonderful light.

Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

Nothing we do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.

Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living.

Ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite; horror is full disclosure.

Further, bearing up under our own burdens can help us develop a reservoir of empathy for the problems others face.

There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.

I feel I am very fortunate to have a job that I really like.