The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.
It has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain as fame or power not founded on its own strength.
For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.
Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.
The stream of plenty always flows towards the open expectant mind
It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.
You must go into the dark in order to bring forth your light.
People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards. . . rather than appreciate them?