If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.