Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.

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.

The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.

Never make permanent eternal decisions based on sense knowledge.

Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

If you devote yourself to more than yourself ... you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.

Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.

A wedding is the formality a man has to go through before going to work for a new boss.

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

The NAACP should have riot rehearsals.

I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.