A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Nevercut what you can untie.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

I am atpeace with God. My conflict is with man.

There is no evil in the atoms, only in men's souls.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Thego-between wears out a thousand sandals.

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

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.