Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

Wickedness may prosper for a while.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.

If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.

Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?

Sequential programming is really hard, and parallel programming is a step beyond that.

Body cameras help to record what happens. It may not be the golden ticket, the golden egg, the end-all-fix-all, but it helps to paint a picture of what happens during a police stop.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

It is better to be lucky than good, but of course appropriate to aspire to both.

A state's potential power is based on the size of its population and the level of its wealth.

The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.

For though there never was so much reading matter put before the public, there was never less actual 'reading' in the truest and highest sense of the term than there is at present.

I love amazing people. I love dazzling them. That's why I think performing magic is one of the greatest things a person can do.

If you can't read the scoreboard. You don't know the score. If you don't know the score, you can't tell the winners from the losers.