None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

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.

You're the funniest thing she knows. That's why she always draws you in color.

A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.

Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.

Heaven and hell is right now, right at this moment. You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

I've always loved fashion - it's a reflection of your personality.

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.

The word "truth" applies to a man's dignity.

Tom Browkaw said it best. He said NBC could survive without him or the rest of the news division, but not Nancy Fields.