Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

If necessityis the mother of invention, conflict is its father.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

When you hear the word 'Invietable' watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.