None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.

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 prerequisite for a banker is Strait As and no talent.

My paranoia wasn't always right, but just to be on the safe side, I never went to sleep with a clown in the room.

I always dream of it: that something will open my eyes, and open everything inside me as well.

. . . for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.

There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.

Science is a way of thinking that helps you not to fool yourself.

God is love and if you are ready, he always is.

Take a good look at yourself before you criticise another, for what you see wrong in them, will also be a lesson for you.

I love to win, but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

Religion is not the most important thing.