There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.
The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
The man who is not permitted to own is owned.
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
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.
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.
Habit is stronger than reason.
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.
The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate they are green and vigorous in old age.
Work and love - these are the basics waking life is a dream controlled.
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.