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

Thereare two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone whowon't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

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

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.