Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

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.

Boundaries are easier to manage when your values are well-defined.

the real tests of life can come a child’s way at any moment,

I'm a bit of a romantic.

I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.

Ask the right questions if you're going to find the right answers.

The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.