All evils are to be considered with the good that is in them, and with what worse attends them.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

It is never too late to be wise.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

A small crack in a wall, the wall might fall. A small crack in a relationship, several walls get created.

One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one, ' said Aunt Hilda

Science is nothing but developed perception interpreted intent common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace

My only hope lies in my despair.

The perennial gale of creative destruction

The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things.

Fairly cheap home computing was what changed my life.

Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.

All plenty which is not my God is poverty to me.