The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

A language is like living skin itself.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

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

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

You made your bed, now lie in it.