Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.

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.

People and events of wonder and magic are the lifeblood of the world.

There would be more happily married couples in the world if people spent more time planning for a married life than for a wedding?

Being true to yourself is always the right thing to do.""Is it? Even if you're a monster?

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Most sane people think that no insane person can reason logically. But this is not so.

Okay, if there's one thing you don't ever say to a woman on the edge it's that she's hormonal.

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.

We have not found any smoking guns.

What is commonly called literary history is actually a record of choices.

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.