There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.

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.

What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have?

Personal Responsibility is the individual desire to be in charge or in control of an action or situation.

The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico's southern border is crucial to our own border security.

If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

An individual's harmony with his or her 'own deep self' requires not merely a journey to the interior but a harmonizing with the environmental world.

It doesn't matter, anyway, why you like me. Just that you do.

One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain.

I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.

I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.