Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

Women know intuitively when they are being devalued. (121)

Confession was the emotional equivalent to puking, Riley supposed. Something bad went down, bits of it came back up, you felt better.

Love is a kind of military service.

When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that's an image I really didn't need.

Home runs just come from accidents by me, ... I just try to hit it solid and sometimes they go out. The record is nice to have but I'm not trying to hit them.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.

I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.