Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Genius is a long impatience.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

Talkingcomes by nature, silence by wisdom.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

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