Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good.

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.

How can I be more important than someone else? Isn’t every life important?

Please challenge me becausewhenever I am challenged, I learn away to survive and a brillianttechnique to fight.

Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently

My tongue speak what my heart thinks.

The reason I think I'm a good pitcher is I locate my fastball and I change speeds. Period. That's what you do to pitch. That's what pitchers have to do to win games

'Dignity of Labour' is a subject to be learnt from Australia!

The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.

You just do as many shows as you can to hone what it is you're working on.

I've noticed the people most uptight about smokers and drinkers don't really have a problem with gluttony and gossip.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.