Wisdom.

“From nothing comes nothing.”

“In politics the middle way is none at all.”

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

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

“'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read.”

“The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.”

“One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.”

“Education is the cheap defense of nations.”

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

“Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.”

“It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.”

“To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.”

“The family is the nucleus of civilization.”

“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”

“Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.”

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

“Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.”

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

“The worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.”

“Things don't have to change the world to be important.”

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”

“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.”

“The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.”

“In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.”

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

“Whatever good things we build end up building us.”

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”

“Education is the transmission of civilization.”

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”

“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”

“Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.”

“Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?”

“Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“I made my money by selling too soon.”

“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”

“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”