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

America is a young country with an old mentality.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.