No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

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 can do nothing without His help. Oh, Lord, what ignorance thinking everything was wealth.

Our parents would not be ‘The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents.

How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?

Make your decisions like a rock & live your life like a flow of water

Woman's place is in the wrong.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

I've always had the dream of going to New Zealand and meeting a lovely New Zealander in a bar.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.