Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

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.

don't wait for the man standing in the snowto cut off his arm help him now

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

Life has a peculiar habit -- once established, it stays. Sometimes it even thrives.

Larry the Cable Guy has everything: sleeveless shirts, stupid catchphrases. He's Mr. T without the acting chops.

Everything in our political life tends to hide from us that there is anything wiser than our ordinary selves.

A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.

I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

I know very few writers who outline fully before they start. It just doesn't seem possible to do, because so many things don't come out until you're absolutely knee-deep in the world.