In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

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.

what is more worst that could happen .... lose yourself ....when you try find the right path to your destination.I think you lost more than that… you

Girls who are on top of things must have three hundred ways of responding to tired thirty-five-year-old divorced men.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.

External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

The greatest human attainment in all the world is for a life to be so surrendered to Him that the name of God Almighty will be glorified through that life.

She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.