Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

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.

Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

Money makes the world go round.

I had a hard time with bullying. I ate lunch in the bathroom.

A lot of actresses like to repeat things over - and I don't once I've been there and done that. I like to see what the next thing is that comes along.

No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.