Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

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 heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

The laugh left a bitter taste in our mouths, but we laughed out all the same.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

There's no map to human behaviour.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

Painting is a strange business.

I always say the only limitations are in your mind, and if you don't buy into those limits, you can do a helluva lot more than you imagine.

To be true to oneself is the hardest test of life.

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

Say I Want to Feel Good when youre Tempted to Indulge in Low-Energy Thoughts