Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

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.

The journey may be more important than the destination.

Start local, think global & constantly raise the bar of excellence.

Patroclus, he says, Patroclus. Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only.

When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.

The only tastes worth having are acquired tastes.

The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

When men have become heartily wearied of licentious anarchy, their eagerness has been proportionately great to embrace the opposite extreme of rigorous despotism.