Those who do not know history will forever remain children

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.

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.

Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.

Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.

Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!

Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.

There are certainly great cities in America that don't have ATP and WTA events. Our fans are very provincial. They want American champions.

Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.

Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate.