We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink.

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.

the threat of Jewish competition was taken away, but so were the Jewish customers

Bitterness leads to brokenness in spirit.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

I saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.

If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will.

I grew up in Monaco, and in that environment going into the financial sector was the obvious choice.

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot.