Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

Knowing Is Not Enough; We Must Apply. Wishing Is Not Enough; We Must Do.

A useless life is an early death.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.

He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

Every second is of infinite value.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

When what you value and dream about doesn’t match the life you are living, you have pain.

The swaggering underemphasis of New England.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

Social media is where losers go to feel important.

We can use economic instruments to help realize our goals but economics does not tell us what our goals should be.

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.

The most difficult owner for me was the late George Marshall of Washington.

So books are real to me, too; they link me not just with other minds but with the vision of other minds, what those minds understand and see. I see their worlds as well as I see my own.

To saucy doubts and fears.

Animals are like humans, only more openly carnal and sexual, more openly and therefore more disarmingly absurd.