Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel

Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.