It is often a sign of wit not to show it, and not to see that others want it.

Recognized probity is the surest of all oaths.

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Make your best thoughts into action.

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid.

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.

Fortune does not change [people], it unmasks them.

Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven.

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous.

One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to whom we speak.

It is never permissible to say, I say.

You don’t go to church to find God

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old seek what they sought.

Anyone who influences others is a leader.

A new report shows that medicare and Medicaid made more than $50 Billion in bad payments during fiscal year 2011. Under Obamacare, that'll become known as 'Tuesday.'

As long as we do science, some things will always remain unexplained.

You kissed me like that when I was a blushing bride ...? I wonder what I was blushing about?

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.

Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.

I fear that we are living in a society, living in a world where forgiving people is becoming more and more difficult to do.