I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

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.

When you’re under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer’s

Memories and emotions could be the greatest form of torture.

Why is it that most of the folks I know think "personal growth" is caused entirely by those second and third helpings of biscuits and gravy?

It's magic. All of a sudden, the idea just pops up. Who knows how?

I'm leaving the game of hockey with nothing but great memories...

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.

When you wish upon a star, you just might become one.

There's usually nothing in a guy's joke in which we have to understand what's going on in someone else's mind.

Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very bold and very public enterprise.