Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

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.

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional.

I think that loyalty surpasses the peril that we're all in.

The cliche is dead poetry.

No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind.

I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.

I certainly believe in limited government but protecting children against injury abuse is certainly inside my sphere of things that the government should do.

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

I've found my missin' piece So grease my knees and fleece my bees I've found my missin' piece!

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.