Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

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

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Our power is in our ability to decide.