I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.

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.

My Message is already out, what has left is to go and to do your part of the work.

I have gotten where I am today by refusing to stay where I was. Change is something I have done over and over again.

Of all the forces in the universe, the hardest to overcome is the force of habit.

We wish to become one thing or another, rather we wish to become everything and in this pursuit of becoming everything we only end up becoming idiots.

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is 'Am I progressing?'

Somewhere the sense makes copper roses steel roses — The rose carried weight of love but love is at an end — of roses It is at the edge of the petal that love waits.

By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers.