Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

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

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

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

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.