There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

What doesn’t transmit light creates its own darkness.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow-beings.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people – men and women, boys and girls – that make the world a special place.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its own storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

He that hunts others, must run himself.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

The world is a comedy to those that think, and a tragedy to those that feel.