One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

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.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

To me, it seems a dreadful indignity to have a soul controlled by geography.

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.