Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.