Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

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.

A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history.

So much time spent believingwe had ghosts in our machines has accustomed us to hauntingourselves.

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

Nature with equal mind sees all her sons at play sees man control the wind the wind sweep man away.

Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

A cool tattoo design is any drawing that would also look good saggy.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

We are sometimes asked what the result would be if we put four +'s in one gene. To answer this my colleagues have recently put together not merely four but six +'s.

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.