Politics is applesauce.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

We shall never cease from exploration<br> And the end of all our exploring<br> Will be to arrive where we started<br> And know the place for the first time.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.