A friend's only gift is himself.
In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The earth has music for those who listen.
Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.