Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

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

Thereare two sides to every question.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.