If a cause be good, the most violent attack of its enemies will not injure it so much as an injudicious defence of it by its friends.

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 am you and what I see is me

Inside the flower, within the very structure of its petals, my soul is an element of nature, at one with the blooming Meadow Pinx in the fields on the coast of Marnan.

It is not the truth that people cannot handle. It is the consequences that stem from that truth.

Einstein's was a beautiful mix of confidence and awe.

Be wary of people who go out of their way in charity. They're usually compensating for some evil they're trying to erase.

When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.

I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.

I speak English without an accent, and I speak Spanish without an accent. I really do have the best of both worlds.

Hang those that talk of fear.

What's given to dunya is lost forever. What's given to Allah is never lost. If you give what you love, for the sake of what He loves, you'll have what you love forever.