It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

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.

We stand not as victims, but rather to bear witness to the gender injustices present in our lives and in our world as a whole.

Loneliness struck again, its force doubled by how much she wished it was her family there instead. Then oddly enough, she met the boy's stare and that feeling came again, that this was her family.

There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.

Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born, If he's not born in thee thy soul is still forlorn.

One could imagine a period like Japan13 years ago, however, in which indexing over time wouldn't work.

With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there is no future.

What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

Yeah, most guys don't like to think about going to a bar with a girlfriend and watching her leave with someone else.

No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.