“The face of tyranny is always mild at first.” — Jean Racine

“We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.” — Evelyn Waugh

“Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don’t notice where we happen to be.”
— Dan Gutman

“We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld