He who hurriescannot walk with dignity.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

People who invite trouble always complain when it occurs.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

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

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escapea hundred days of sorrow.

Younever really understand a person until you consider things from his point ofview.