Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.