The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

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.

Love is strange mutual agreement in which qualities of one person gets sopped up by another person...

Americans in general have a lot of compassion, we just don't always have the same view of how that compassion is implemented.

Got to be who you are in this world, no matter what.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

Starbucks has changed the rules of engagement for the music industry.

For we did not and do not wish the Temple to be placed in any servitude except that which is fitting.

If I'm sick of me, I can only imagine how other people feel.

When I write - I always write on my own - I demo those songs on a four-track.

To give of yourself is much more important than giving a gift you can buy.

You can't photograph if you're not in love.