Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

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.

Millennials, instead of a danger, are really a reflection of the society in which they grew up in, and in which all of us now live.

The heart was designed to worship, and if it is not being utilized to worship God, it will worship something else.

They say things about these woods...that there are strange things living here.

I have never been a girlie girl and have always been a boys' girl with an equal amount of friends who were boys and girls.

I used to be an athlete and even ran the 400 metre stretch for Tamil Nadu. I have always been active.

All the research shows that investing in women is a good investment

President Obama filled in as the coach of his daughter Sasha's basketball team. Sasha evidently listened to her Dad, because all she did was drive straight down the center and piss everyone off.

We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife.

I am not my sister's keeper. I am my sister.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.