All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

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

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove 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

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.