Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.

The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

There is no right government except good government.

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

It is right to prefer our own country to all others, because we are children and citizens before we can be travellers or philosophers.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.