The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices.

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.

You are where your energy is and you get something from where your energy goes!

I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

If you're having a bad day, get on with your job, because you having a bad day can affect everyone around you.

In the beginning was the secret brain. The brain was celled and soldered in the thought

Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move.

The simplest and bravest way to counter the plight of disheartenment is to move toward what is precious.

I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

She was so fat that her clothes are made by Omar the tent maker.