It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

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 matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

The more you seat in peace, the less you bleed in war

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

The present is never a happy state to any being

We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves byour intentions.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.