For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.