Beauty is objectified pleasure.

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.

CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!

Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I'd be a little cat. They like to live life.

Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion.

You’re a gentleman,” they used to say to him. “You shouldn’t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that’s no occupation for a gentleman.

They could put Hillary Clinton's brain in a jar in the Oval Office, and she'd be elected. People are really sick.

Dear God, don't let us confine Easter to Easter.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.