No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.

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 best way to check what you want is to first imagine that you have nothing and then check if the thing you want really matters to you. Your priorities would change

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

I won't go back and live in the sea again.

Giving is the highest level of living.

Well, TV series tie you up. You can't do films while you're doing a TV series.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

Because I'm a synesthete I see characters in colors and I perceive a W as green.

You can't act like you've arrived when you're only just receiving the invitation.