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

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Between friends there is no need of Justice.

Nevercut what you can untie.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Only few men think, but all have opinions.

Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

He who gainsa victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himselfis all powerful.