He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place.

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 made my name”. What does this mean? It means that a man has successfully graduated through the process of inner self-development

What I must know, only the Master teaches!

A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.

However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.

Just shred baby, shred.

Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!

Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

I am sensitive to life, and somehow acting comes to me. I cant explain it.

Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism.

Letting your freak flag fly is something, no matter who you are, that takes great bravery, straight up.