A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

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

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

We make our friends, we make our enemies, but God makes our next-door neighbours.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!