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

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

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

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

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