It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Silencemay be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than tolisten to him?

A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

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

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.