Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

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

The strongest is never strong enough to be always, the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

The split in you is clear. There is a part of you that knows what it shoulddo, and a part that does what it feels like doing.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist