The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

The constant demands of the heart and the belly can allow man only an incidental indulgence in the pleasures of the eye and the understanding.

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

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

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.