He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

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.

She had thought about that moment so often during the past few years it had dried out. It was stale, like old, odourless potpourri. But she still want back to it, because it was the only one.

If you feel like giving up, give up on that feeling and give into the realization there are endless possibilities waiting to be discovered before you.

To eat well, I always disagree with critics who say that all restaurants should be fine dining. You can get a Michelin star if you serve the best hamburger in the world.

Russia hasn't paid any attention to ISIS. They're interested in keeping Assad in power.

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

Enemies of art are the opposite of the Sun; they emit darkness instead of light!

Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.

I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.

I get some letters from girls that if their mothers knew what they were writing me in these letters, they'd get their butts whipped.

A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom