Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

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.

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.

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.

How can we tell people "never give up" when some haven't even started yet.

This sounds an extraordinary statement to make, but in fact all truth is very ordinary.

Love potions? For Will Herondale? T’aint my way to turn down payment, but any man who looks like you has got no need of love potions, and that’s a fact.

If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls, if you'd be so kind.

I am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.