Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

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.

But Grover’s voice was already growing fainter. ‘Sweet dreams. Don’t let me die!

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

Defeat, if you survive it, should mean time for reflection.

I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.

I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first person, but the second person, the other person.

[Having monologue] are talking to somebody even if it's just to yourself, convince yourself if that's what you're trying to do.

The person that takes over needs to have the skills to manage that ... I believe Andrea [Leadsom] has the edge.

Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?

I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it?