My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

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.

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

I have always found that effort is most easily produced when performed for the benefit of something external to ourselves.

It's amazing", he whispered, "to know that my purpose in life is sitting in front of me.

Keep thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterward.

My ambition is to become one of those actresses that is like a chameleon that you don't recognize.

When a High Explosive shell bursts in fifteen feet and does you no damage, you can bet your sweet life you bear a charmed life and no mistake.

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

Being still at least once a day will enhance your life.

God doesn't look at just what we give. He also looks at what we keep.

A small team of A+ players can run circles around a giant team of B and C players.