They resented the patronage they depended upon.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Books are humanity in print.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition.

A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

You should never do two things. You should hammer one nail all your life, and I didn't do that; I hammered on a lot of nails like a xylophone.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

It is less important to ask a Christian what he or she believes about the Bible than it is to inquire what he or she does with it.

If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world

That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb.

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

[Ronald Reagan] called the image of [George] Washington praying on his knees in Valley Forge "the most sublime image in American history."

My parents were sixty years married.

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.