Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

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

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of whichhe is convinced.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.