Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]

Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

The mob has no ruler more potent than superstition.

Fear makes men believe the worst.

Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

Don’t let the burdens and hardships of this lifedistract you or discourage you, but keep your eyes firmly fixed on what God has promisedat the end of our journey: heaven itself.

How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?

Back in those days it was just me swimming around in the dark, doing back flips and taking naps whenever I want.

There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

While working as a team, you push yourself forward and move outside the boundaries. It's a great thing.

People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.

Sometimes you just stumble into something that works, and here I am a quarter of a century later.

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.