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

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Faith is continuation of reason.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

Malicedrinketh its own poison.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.