Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

A mediocre speech supported by all the power of delivery will be more impressive than the best speech unaccompanied by such power.

Study depends on the goodwill of the student, a quality that cannot be secured by compulsion.

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

if you cannot find the distinctive opportunities you want, you can create the distinctive opportunities you want but you can't find!

Fake it may be, lies and deceptions, but this is the world in which we find ourselves, and here we must make our little lives.

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.

We are too quick to live this life and forget that there is another world to come...this is not the end.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.

If you default on an unsecured debt, you won't lose anything (except points on your credit score).

I'm up at like 6 a.m. With my trainer, running up the hill you drove up to get here.

My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.