Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

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.

The worst part of breakup is when you get out of a relationship and you don't recognize yourself because it changed you.It changed something of you.

Gender-equality rests on the idea that one can climb the sea and swim the mountains.

Genuine people never seems to be in rush. In their conversation they make the other person feel special.

I am at my most powerful when I am working with life rather than against it.

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

Being a role model is about being true to myself.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.

He who hid well, lived well.

Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.