"In politics as on a sickbed men..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Doubt grows with knowledge.”

“Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.”

“The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.”

“The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism.”

“Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.”

“Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.”

“Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?”

“Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee.”

“There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.”