Every advantage has its tax

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Non-cooperationis a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for theopposite views.

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

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.