Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

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.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

There are still places in America that we need to nurture, to allow them to understand that there are other ways of living, and it's not wrong, just because it's not your way of living.

What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.

It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.

The key to financial freedom and great wealth is a person's ability or skill to convert earned income into passive income and/or portfolio income.

I want to make music that lots of people will love.