Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

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.

Perfection exists only in your own mind. What you find to be perfect, is not necessarily perfect for someone else.

There breaks in every Gloucester wave A windowed woman's heart.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer.

I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.

Capital and labor are both wild forces which require intelligent legislation to hold them in restriction.

Great acting is about listening to what they are saying ....not waiting to deliver your lines.

It's nice sometimes to open up the heart a little and let some hurt come in. It proves you're still alive.

Common sense is not always common practice.

Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.