Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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

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

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.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

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.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

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

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.