Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

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.

What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?

When you come to life from a heart of service, you may be surprised by the blessings you will receive in return.

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?

Until we express ourselves, tell our elected officials what we expect from them, we can't expect them to do it on their own.

I don't need arms, and neither does anyone else... At the very least, a ban would prevent fights from turning deadly.

When we are honest, we admit how agreeable it can feel to be singled out for favored treatment. The biggest barrier to equality for all is that inequality for some feels good.

Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.