The warexisting between the senses and reason.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Makesure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, andyou can't settle anything until morning anyway.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

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

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

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