"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things."

"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on."

"ita€?s when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest."

"Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent."

"If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it."

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."

"PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign."

"The past is finished. There is nothing to b gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know."

"There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating."

"Philosophy and the subjects known as 'humanities' are still taught almost as if Darwin had never lived. No doubt this will change in time."

"Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again."

"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."