Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

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.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been. Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

I throw a lot more punches than Floyd [ Mayweather]. He's very efficient with his punches and when he throws he lands a very high percentage but he's not exceptionally busy every round.

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets.

It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.