Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

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.

I have never learned how to tell somebody something good about myself

Insofar as men gain time, ease, independence, or liberty from women's domestic labors, they lack incentive to change.

Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you.

Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse.

Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

Politics doesn't have to be a drag. It can be positive, and it can be fun, and it can be inspiring.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul. . . .

I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope...and that's all I had.