Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate.

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.

There is no one I would rather see the sunrise with than you.

I could get through this. I would be strong because I was so close to achieving my dream of having my kids together.

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

To give is to receive.

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation

Length is usually intensity. Not time.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.