Eloquence is a republican art, as conversation is an aristocratic one.

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.

The wise respond. The foolish react. The wise think & then act. The foolish act and then regret.

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

Nothing goes down slower than a golf handicap.

Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary.

I got into music because my Dad used to tell everyone I had the voice of an angel when I was two-years-old.

I love worldbuilding. It's as much fun for me as writing itself. It's like a hobby of mine.

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.