We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.
I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.
Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge
Nothing should be done for spite's sake.