People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.

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.

A tightly woven argument is more impermeable to the frigid winds of criticism.

She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.

The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.

As time passes, my story fades away.

I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?

[Bashar] Assad has made a series of choices ever since then that is literally destroying his country.

The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful.

Good typography, first, makes words readable. At its best, it does something more: it helps express the animating spirit of the ideas behind the words.

I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.