Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

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.

She has the care of a mother, the love of a sister, a prostitute in bed. Who is she?

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

A good beginning makes a good end.

If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.

You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces?

From now on, anyone raped at Penn State should just tell Joe Paterno's statue. It couldn't help you any less than the real Joe would have.

From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.

The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from his life.

Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?

Rooms should be timeless.