It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.

We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

Tryon Edwards

If truth make us not truthful, what service can it render us?

John Lancaster Spalding

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

Henry David Thoreau

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

Johann von Goethe

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only then do they have to fall back on their reserves.

Leon Trotsky

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Josh Billings

Without justice, courage is weak.

Benjamin Franklin

I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.

Rachael Ray

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Hippocrates

President Clinton is going to embrace President Obama, as he should. They are working together. They're different kinds of people. Obama is cool, Clinton is a schmoozer. Both are great speakers. It's a great merging of the party.

Bill Richardson

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde