Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, or inflame our vices.

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.

You're my story, you're my poetry, you're my floweryou're my deep driving desire.

Proper researching is arguably half the quest. Not knowing the right direction to travel in, makes the journey a lot harder than it is.

They were two burnt lovers, too similar and too different at the same time.

To fulfill your vision, you must have hindsight, insight and foresight.

You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.

Children?have no use for psychology.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation.

There's never been a civilization that has rewritten what marriage and family means and survived.

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?