Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

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.

I should and can play better. That is going to be the challenge for me.

If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.

They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.

I chose to stay with him for all the things that he had done right and not to leave him for the one thing that he had done wrong.

Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.

We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.

This is what people do in America. They get out. They demonstrate. They let their voices with heard.

Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her.

We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.