"The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him."

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

"The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity."

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

"I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty."

"Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on."

"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."

"The existence of any evil anywhere at any time absolutely ruins a total optimism."

"A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present."

"The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it."

"Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility."

"To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful."

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

"To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say."

"Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."

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

"The worship of power is an old religion."

"If a man really knew himself he would utterly despise the ignorant notions others might form on a subject in which he had such matchless opportunities for observation."

"It is possible to be a master in false philosophy, easier, in fact, than to be a master in the truth, because a false philosophy can be made as simple and consistent as one pleases."

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

"The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk."

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

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

"Only the dead have seen the end of the war."

"Sanity is a madness put to good uses."

"Sanity is madness put to good use."

"By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all."

"Music is essentially useless, as is life."

"Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason."

"Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it."

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

"Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others."

"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject."

"To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time."

"The highest form of vanity is love of fame."

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

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

"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what."

"The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise."

"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."

"Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers."

"England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours."

"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."

"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."

"Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public."

"Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world."

"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."

"For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep."

"Nothing so much enhances a good as to make sacrifices for it."

"Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies."