That is probable which for the most part usually comes to pass, or which is a part of the ordinary beliefs of mankind.

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.

When there is no Personal Responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government. Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of Personal Responsibility.

There is something sad about malevolence, to be wicked. I have always tried to make that come across in the villains I have played.

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

People can find eroticism in relations with people whom they respect and whom they see as equals.

All the cul-de-sacs are closed for Scotland.

Activity does not necessarily equal progress.

There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards, but because they are men.

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

Krishna exalts those who are humble and humbles those who exalt themselves.

The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language.