The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Don't throwout the baby with the bath water.

Our errors are steps on the way.

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from 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

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The hardest thing to disguise is you feelings when you put a lot of relatives on the train for home.

Old men are dangerous; it does not matter to them what is going to happen to the world.