Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.

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 is wonderful, this whole business of tickling and kissing God every night.

The secret of true prosperity is finding our security through our connection with the divine, with the spiritual world.

The eyes of others our prisons

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.

Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.

It's interesting how Obama's adorers in the press keep comparing him to Lincoln and Reagan. Apparently they can't think of a Democrat president worthy of being compared to.

Friendship? Yes Please.

Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.

The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.

Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.