“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.”
Experience“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.”
Friendship“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.”
Experience“The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.”
Imagination“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.”
History“One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
Friendship“That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.”
Fear“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
History“To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.”
Positive“Wisdom comes by disillusionment.”
Wisdom“By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.”
Nature“Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.”
Music“For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.”
Death“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.”
Hope“Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another people are friends in spots.”
Friendship“Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.”
Money“The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.”
Wisdom“Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions their reasons are always different.”
Women“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”
Marriage“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”
Education“Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.”
Alone“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.”
Art