Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

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.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

I left a note for my mother. I always leave a note for my mother when I am on a case.

American presidential leadership never goes out of style.

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

For "Running Up That Hill" we had worked with a drum machine [in 1985]; the basic rhythms of "Running Up That Hill" happened because the whole track was built on a drum machine.

There's nothing that reflects me. I'm unreflectable!

Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.

I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.

Creation cost Him nothing; salvation cost Him everything.