There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

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