Deprived of the company of fools, a great wit does not seem half so clever.

Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a wish to win the confidence of others, and to make an exchange of secrets.

The highest skill is the true judgment of values.

However different men's fortunes may be, there is always something or other that balances the ill and the good, and makes all even at last.

The most trying fools are the bright ones.

The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease by throwing off the weight that lay heavy upon it.

Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.

Nothing is given so willingly as advice.

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

My beard grows down to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hairAround my bare, And down the road I goes.

If he wouldn't take charge of this, she would. "Take off your clothes.

The burden of sin leads you to the need of a savior

That was another thing that was becoming overwhelming --- her emotions. She normally only seemed to have two --- happy or pissed off.

We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

She'd rather hoped for something simple, like a lined piece of notebook paper with MY EVIL PLAN written across the top, but no luck.

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.