The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

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

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

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

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.