A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

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

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.