Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

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

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.