A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

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.

It was only a matter of time. She would love him before the week was out and it would be gloriously terrible, wonderfully hopeless.

If you don't know what to do next take the oath that will enhance your soul and erase your ego, & from the quiet space inside yourself, you will know what to do.

You more than anyone else dederve to be loved and happy. Do not remain in any relationship that robs you of those two things.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains and studying night and day how to fly?

At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.

I believe in God, I just give him more credit than being a single parent and an author.

A little fear is good for a fellow, it keeps him from getting over-confident.

People will always be more willing to give you things that they think you don't need.

A federal appellate circuit looked at what [Barak] Obama was doing and said he can't do it. Immigration law is settled.

The ocean is dying, and we have no place to escape to if this experiment doesn't go in our favor.