To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

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.

Never pursue happiness, just be happy.

Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the English Way

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

Without style, there can be no identity.

What is the past, after all, but a vast sheet of darkness in which a few moments, pricked apparently at random, shine?

We do not truly know what love is unless we know Christ.

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

Physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse—without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

Anybody who cannot learn to hear by feeling will not go very far in church.