There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

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.

Wealth is good when it brings joy to others.

Were they dating? Sort of. Exclusive? Not as far as she knew... Discovering new feelings was one thing. Actually changing your Facebook status? That was real.-- Savannah

Last chance to success is right before your last breath, when you sign away your will. Have patience to declare it as 'the last chance

Teenagers try to hide what's really going on in their communication online.

Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.

sorrow is easier than guilt.

To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away.

What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.

Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.

Then when I cut my hair short, my career tanked for about four years!