Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

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

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

If twopeople on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If theydisagree all the time, then both are useless.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.