Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Chances happens to all, but to turn chance to reality is the gift of the few.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

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

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.