An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.