Anger is practical awkwardness.

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.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Character is the tree, reputation is the shadow.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

People must believe what they can, and those who believe more must not be hard upon those who believe less. I doubt if you would have believed it all yourself if you hadn't seen some of it.

Gratitude & joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.

Every journey toward a dream is personal, and as a result, so is the price that must be paid for it.

Love remains a secret even when spoken, for only a true lover truly knows that he is loved.

I think we shot the ball very well tonight, we just didn't get stops when we needed to. They hit 11 3-pointers in the third quarter. Sometimes when one person gets hot, everybody's hot.

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.