Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

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

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

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

Out ofthe fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.