Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

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

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

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

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.