Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

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

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.