Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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

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

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

A fanatic is a man who redoubles his efforts after he has forgotten his aims.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.

It is characteristic of spontaneous friendship to take on first, without enquiry and almost at first sight, the unseen doings and unspoken sentiments of our friends; the parts known give us evidence enough that the unknown parts cannot be much amiss.

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.