To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

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

In history, characters and events occur twice, first as tragedy then as farce.