“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”

Knowledge itself is power.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.

There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

It is impossible to love and be wise.

For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.

The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.

Ideological warriors whether from the Left or the Right are bad news for the bench. They tend to make law, not interpret law. And that’s not what any of us should want from our judges.

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.

It’s bad policy to speculate on what you’ll do if a plan fails when you’re trying to make a plan work.

A weapon isn’t good or bad, depends on the person who uses it.

Whenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It’s weird.

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven – not excused or sublimated.