Virtue is its own reward.

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.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

My skin is so thin that the innocent words of others burn holes right through me.

Come, Watson, come!" he cried. The game is afoot.

Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.

A good dog is one of the best things of all to be.

The poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far in many cases.

Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.

Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

Christians, like snowflakes, are frail, but when they stick together they can stop traffic.

The brain does not make the man; the man makes the brain.