I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.

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’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....

Professing not to care is a primordial defense mechanism. Whenever a person finds oneself mired in failure and despondency, rebelling is a viable option to preserve false personal pride.

If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime.

From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

It is a very great mistake to suppose, as a few English cooks still do, that spaghetti and macaroni should be soaked in water before cooking.

Without Country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples.

With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect.

There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.