The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

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.

What if just you and I hung out, like last summer?" Nick sat up and began twirling a lock of my wet hair around his finger. "Josh never needs to know.

Everything cannot be possible without thinking that everything is possible!

A smart husband buys his wife very fine china so she won't trust him to wash it.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

If Barack Obama cannot appreciate that our troops are winning in Iraq, he should not be their Commander in Chief.

Be happy, healthy, and let all that love flow through your heart.

The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus.

Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.