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

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.

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

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

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.

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

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

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

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

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.