Slowly and imperceptibly old age comes creeping on.

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.

With great enthusiasm, pursue your dreams.

With the persistent loud voice, fool asks us to respect serenity.

Dreamers dream about things being different. Visionaries envision themselves making a difference.

That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.

Now my complaint is there are only 18 hours to work in a day.

You have a gift that can make you rich. Everyone does.

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

You're not poor because you don't have money. You're poor if you don't have a dream.

I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.