The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

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.

It isn't the evil and indecent who are flung down into the depths, no! Oh, no! The evil and decisive fling down those who are moral, honest and noble but maladroit, hesitant and full of scruples.

I would kiss the ground where your shadow fell just to be near you.

Guilt: punishing yourself before God doesn't.

Well, I think it's because I'm an only daughter. I have four brothers, a bunch of guy cousins, and so it's like I was raised amongst men. So I've always gotten along really well with men.

When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.

I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory.

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign.

Live, love, knowing that we're all free Now that we are blessed in our country And realise how lucky we are

I miss home badly sometimes. But then I remember there's nothing left to miss anymore. I feel safer here.