Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.

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.

It’s dangerous to be grateful for the cage that traps you.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

He was a breath of fresh air after the heart wrenching storm that had engulfed me.

If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.

My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.

As the meditation evolves, you attention passes into higher realms of consciousness.

Out here, due process is a bullet.

I'm a Taurus, you know. A bull. I belong in a field.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

Civilization is what makes you sick.