Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Thegreatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Neversay more than is necessary.

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

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.