It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

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

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

Theability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

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

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.