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.

Understand that for better or worse, you create your own life.

This stupidity of sounding a siren and speeding through traffic with a coffin must be an African speciality.

I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

I don't really agree with the role model thing. People are always saying that athletes shouldn't do X or Y because they are role models.

It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

People attack Scientology, I never forget it, always even the score. People attack auditors, or staff, or organisations, or me. I never forget until the slate is clear.

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.