"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.

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.

There is nothing more beautiful than a kind soul.

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

There is no reciprocity. Men love women women love children children love hamsters.

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

I barely notice colors unless I taste them. Not the yellows or the greens. I taste the deeper blues. The darker reds.

Laa shay'a waqi'un moutlaq bale kouloun moumkine...We work in the Dark, to serve the Light.

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.