There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

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.

A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

God isn’t finished with you when you retire! When we know Christ, we never retire from His service.

No one has ever made me feel like this, no one. So much regret, so much loss, and so much desire all swirled together in my muddled brain. In my muddled heart.

God himself made government and gave it an environment of the kingdom

It's more important to be read than paid.

Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.

Otherwise I don't read much adult poetry at all, because I'm not smart enough and mostly I don't get it.

Easier will always win out over harder.

Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.

He who fails to plan is planning to fail.