The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

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 essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them.

For he that once is good, is ever great.

At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.

I'll be out having a good time and stick my gum on the side of my cup - I know, it's a horrible habit - and people will steal the cup.

If I'm smart then I'll run away, but I'm not so I guess I'll stay

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you.

Wretched un-idea'd girls.

My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.