Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.

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.

A nation that does not provide a proper education for women is destroying their nation.

A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts.

Christians should use their prosperity for the glory of the Kingdom of God.

A man who makes a mistake, can learn from it.A man that makes the same mistake again, has never made a mistake in the first place.

Weak coffee is the greatest sin against humanity.

When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.

The omelette tasted like flannel.

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

The insight is born with anxiety, guilt and the joy and gratification that is inseparable from the actualizing of a new idea or vision.

Saying that the origin of the Islamic State (IS) is within the Muslim Brotherhood organisation only strengthens IS.