The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.

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.

Your true potential is unlimited, and you can certainly achieve much more than human intelligence can comprehend.

One of the happiest moments of life is when you learn to love without expecting any return.

Nature is a source of strength.

Where could I go but to the Lord?

You learn more about yourself through your child, I guess.

Everything I turn up to, I think I'm going to enjoy. I never look back, so I don't have regrets.

Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world.

In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.

The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.

(Looking at their son on ultrasound.) He looks like an angel. (Cassandra) I don’t know. I think he looks like a frog or something. (Wulf)