Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy.

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

Do not be deceived by the outward appearance of age or youth - a new pitcher may be full of good, old wine, while an old one may be totally empty.

I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it

Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done.

I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it.

I have a lot of endurance and I have a good background right now in my training and it's time to get ready.