Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

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

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Parents these days scarcely bring up children; they finance them.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.