The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

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.

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.

All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.

the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.

I love kids, so working with them wasn't a problem.