The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.

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.

God always estimates how diligent a person is to his work.

The reason we haven't yet fully understood the Jesus story is that we are gospel-based rather than Bible-based Christians!

What I have always found amazing is that God can use our bad choices to still get us right where He intended us to be.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

When I think of all the years in my 30s when I starved myself... but when I got the role of Lois, I stopped thinking about my looks and was just myself.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.

I try to create a place of disorientation.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members