The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Stability is not immobility

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

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 darkest hour has only 60 minutes

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

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

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