We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

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.

I Can See Nothing But The Bottom Sides of Her Shoes, And Then All Became Ample Dark.

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.

How we treat people is always our choice, and if we choose not to be respectful, it can come back to bite us.

It's fun being a girl.

Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

I don't need to publish to make a living.

Why do you need to brake? Find your place, just be confident, and drive into it.

There are no short and easy paths to a long and lasting happiness.

For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him.