History Is Nothing But Assisted And Recorded

Religion Is The Natural Reaction Of The Imagination When Confronted By The Difficulties In A Truculent World.

One's Friends Are That Part Of The Human Race With Which One Can Be Human.

If Artists And Poets Are Unhappy, It Is After All Because Happiness Does Not Interest Them.

Progress, Far From Consisting In Change, Depends On Retentiveness. When Change Is Absolute There Remains No Being To Improve And No Direction Is Set For Possible Improvement: And When Experience Is Not Retained, As Among Savages, Infancy Is Perpetual. Those Who Cannot Remember The Past Are Condemned To Repeat It. In The First Stage Of Life The Mind Is Frivolous And Easily Distracted; It Misses Progress By Failing In Consecutiveness And Persistence. This Is The Condition Of Children And Barbarians, In Which Instinct Has Learned Nothing From Experience.

Intolerance Is A Form Of Egotism, And To Condemn Egotism Intolerantly Is To Share It.