Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

We writers are a crazy group. I can't think of any other profession where the actual work is deep within, uncomfortable, and wanting out.

Power is the flower of organization.

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

Jews show so near an affinity to you... Where is your Christianity if you do not believe in their Judaism?

Surfeits kill more than fasting does.

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming

Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.

There needs to be a thorough examination, by Muslims everywhere, of why it is that the faith they love breeds so many violent mutant strains.

All extremes of feeling are allied to madness.