Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.

Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.