Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in.

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.

What can you give God but bhakti bhava? He owns it all anyway.

Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say no more. You can't be humble without self-love.

I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium.

No matter what they tell you, no matter what they do, no matter what they teach you, what you believe is true.

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

It is one thing to be awakened to injustice and quite another to be willing to be inconvenienced and interrupted to do something about it.

Biology has tended to be an observational science and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past but I hate to predict the future on that.

I want my foundation built, and I want to be strong enough to deal with everything coming my way.

In my very first Wrestlemania match, I won. 17 wins from tying the Undertaker. Don't laugh.

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.