The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

The greatest job of teachers is to cultivate talent until it ripens for the public to reap its bounty.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

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