Talent lying in the understanding is often inherited genius being the action of reason or imagination rarely or never.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination rarely.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks they are the summits of ranges.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy amused way.

Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that in most cases it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening and cooking which I rarely do in London.