You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

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

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since atleast half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.