Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

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 might not be equal in what we know but we are equal in what we do not know.

It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.

We Christians must look sharp that our Christianity does not simply refine our sins without removing them.

When Eve dropped her shield of faith, every other piece of her spiritual armor became vulnerable.

How far can you push a rope? Not very far. That's why true influencers don't push.

Everyone behaves badly--given the chance.

I'd turn and run but I'm anchored by two dudes that could hold the Titanic during a tsunami.

I love playing in Japan! It's always like being in the ancient past and the future at the same time. And the fans sing along to every word.

People wonder whether I got my presenting job as a result of my own abilities or because of Gordon, which is a little unfair.

To seek, beneath the universal strife, the hidden harmony of things.