Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Ittakes nine months to have a baby, no matter how many people you put on thejob.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

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

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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