Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.

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.

If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.

Life seems like a haunted wood, where we tremble and crouch and cry.

With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

Teams want me to do something stupid. You want to get to the point where nothing affects you, where you control them.

A great man is one sentence.

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

If you're going to marry someone, maybe you can be mad for a few weeks and it can still work out.

In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To what price, that depends on the scale of the inflation - and we know that inflation will continue.

You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.

I wish I was as sure of anything as he is of everything.