Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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 best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best- write the story you want to read.

You say I resemble a flower

Systems win! Believe in your system, and then sell it to your players.

a man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you.

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.

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If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about.

The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it