A house may draw visitors but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

There is nowhere to arrive except the present moment.

Have I not told youdinosaurs were past glorythey extinct big time.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.

And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.

It's important to me that a man is good at taking care of people.

Writing sketches, youre also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.

Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.

I've been attracted to Kate Moss since I was a teenager.

Some people say I’m a dreamer, others say, 'If you fall asleep at work again we’re going to have to let you go'.

It's surprisingly difficult to build fake overhead bins, especially ones that, you know, you can open really easily - because when you're floating around, you don't have any traction, obviously.