Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Don'tput all your eggs in one basket.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Assumptionof cooperative goals leads to viewing the conflict as a common problem to besolved for mutual benefit.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down,so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

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

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.